Diffract Like No One's Watching

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Nothing says "I love you, Dad" like stitching the fundamental weirdness of quantum physics into fabric! This brilliant embroidery shows the double-slit experiment with the perfect caption: "Diffract like no one's watching."

For the quantum-curious: light passing through two slits creates an interference pattern (those stripes) instead of just two lines, proving light behaves as both a particle AND a wave. But here's the truly mind-bending part - this pattern only appears when we're not directly observing which slit the particles go through. The moment we try to watch, the pattern disappears!

Basically, reality is shy and changes behavior when you stare at it. Talk about performance anxiety at the subatomic level!

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