English Science Physics Quantistic theory

What the Viennese researchers did was, effectively, to try melting the seal on those letters. At first just a little bit. They heated up the photons, and then they looked at the pattern on the detector. I know I’m conflating letters, photons and arrows here, but what they saw was that the arrows were less clumped. The pattern was less STARK. As they heated the photons more, so the distribution of the arrows became more and more like you’d expect in the everyday world – focussed on the bullseyes, with just a few strays elsewhere.
The act of heating, they suggested, tells us something about measurement. As anything gets hot, it radiates energy. That’s how we began this whole tale, if you remember. And the different wavelengths – the colours of that light energy – can carry contain different quantities of information. The result of heating was that some of the information about the photon – the contents of the letter – became readable. It’s as if the yielding wax allowed a corner of a page to roll up and be read. Only a few words became visible, but it was enough to allow the reader to see that it was probably a love letter. Perhaps the words “your lips” came into view. Now it was definitely not a bill, nor an order for unicorn horn. It might still have been something other than a love letter. It could have been an instruction to keep silent: a threat, for instance, to a witness of a crime not to let a single word about the incident pass their lips. Whatever the truth, not all possibilities about the nature of that information are open any more. And so the weird quantum pattern is less STARK.