Good to see you again, Cali. Nice to know you still have a flare for words.
Right, if any information exists IN PRINCIPLE (you don’t actually have to go gather the information to get the effect) the interference will disappear.
The reason for this is kind of simple but not obvious. It turns out that detecting a particle with attributes a, b, c, … and creating a particle with those same attributes are basically the same situation (they will make the same pattern in a two slit experiment because all that really matters is those attributes).
Or to put it another way. If a particle leaves any information about which slit it went though, it will make the same pattern as if you had instead created a “new” particle (with the same properties of course) at the slit in question.
Crudely speaking: detecting a particle at slit one, is no different than moving the particle emitter (often a laser) directly in front of slit 1 and emitting a particle (with no chance of it going though slit 2). This of course won’t produce the interesting interference pattern (and why the interference pattern must disappear if there is any information about which slit it went though).
This is a specific issue with the measurement problem.
We are not capable of perceiving these interactions so we have to rely on measurements which effect the outcome. Only laser or photon effect are visible to us.
But you cannot put laser in front of the one slit. Because effects are visible only when slits are much smaller than the probability of laser hitting only one slit.
Actually, if I’m not wrong, with lasers quantum probability is visible with only one slit. You can get an actual wave distribution with only one slit in visible wave length.
Regarding electrons and other particles in double slit experiment. In order to determine which slit particle went through, you need to interact with that particle at that slit. That however creates a different set of conditions, and I suppose you could say that it creates a new particle at that point. Feynman’s equations could point to that conclusion. But the point is that whichever detector in slit fired first could of done that because of prior probability wave distribution.
I’m by no means expert in this, nor do I claim to be, but have spent unhealthy amount of time watching and learning about this stuff.
In Science there are no stupid questions. So, I’ll ask three?
So, what happens when an ant observes a photon travelling through the double slit experiment?
Do photons come out of my eyes?
And what happens when someone with Tourette’s goes to worship Jesus in Church but keeps shouting “Sucks cock in Hell!!!” uncontrollably, over and over again, and quite loudly?
Things that keep me up at night.
The exact same thing as when you are walking down the street and pass an Arcona. (Reference Flat World) You don’t have the ability to see that which is beyond your percepteion.
Yes, Photons come out of your eyes. That’s the way color works.
Nothing. I have been to church services with a van loat of Tourette’s affected children. “Eat Your Beans” what the funniest thing yelled out in a Church service.
All very simple questions.
If your eyes are warmer than -273C, then yes.
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So the James Webb telescope: “One hundred times more sensitive than Hubble, and operating in the realm of infrared, James Webb is already capturing galaxies far more distant than any we have before.
“There’s no way that Webb can look for 2,000 seconds at any point in the sky, and not get an incredibly deep field,” Rigby says. “This is going to be the future from now on. Wherever we look, it’s a deep field. Without even really breaking a sweat, we’re seeing back in time to galaxies that we’re seeing the light as it looked billions of years ago.”
Alert. Picture taken of god!!! 
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I’m calling bullshit photoshop on that pic of God. Did it say what day of creation that pic was supposedly taken? Because I don’t recall anywhere in the bible where it says “God created buildings.” And that definitely looks like a building behind him. Also, what the hell is “Krakatoa”? That’s just ridiculous. EVERYBODY knows the magic word for creating the universe is, “Abracadabra!”
The Volcano God Krakatoa? Is that the same one Moses talked to on the mountain?