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Hey /sci/

TL:DR, your theories on the double slit experiment and wave-particle duality in general?

Please bare with me, I'm an enthusiast at best and I'm new to most scientific concepts

I definitely don't understand it as good as you guys, I just finished watching Feymans lecture on the double slit experiment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJfjRoxCbk).). It's my understanding that the photons acted like waves only when being observed, and acted like particles when left to hit the detector unobserved. My questions / thoughts:

>Do the photons start life as particles, and assume the form of a wave during interaction or vice versa
>Are the photons interacting with themselves, or just simply whatever apparatus is used for monitoring them mid flow

I'll think of some more questions if this is something anyone would like to discuss