Khaled: "The Observer Effect" and "The Double-Slit Experiment"

 

Khaled (a.k.a. "K.") is currently characterizing his graphic novel's protagonist according to "the observer effect."

Many scientists and laypersons know this theory through the double-slit experiment, an investigation in which electrons are fired at a wall through a plate containing two slits.  In the following educational video, physicist Fred Alan Wolf (a.k.a. Dr. Quantum) (@Doctor_Quantum) gives a user-friendly overview of the experiment and its implications.

As one faculty member of the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign says, "The act of making a measurement of the electrons path [involved in the experiment] fundamentally changes the outcome of the experiment."  The IP faculty remains excited to see how K. will integrate this idea into his project.