Anyone have a theory behind the double slit experiment ?
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Unless I heard the expiration wrong (which is likely since I was half-listing at work) the original test was with light (photons), the second test was with seeming random atoms. But again I may be totally retarded.
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The double slit experiment uses photons in each case, one unobserved where they behave as a wave, one observed where they behave as particles.
I haven't watched this video though so I don't know what it says. No sound at work.
I haven't watched this video though so I don't know what it says. No sound at work.
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The video is one of the more confusing ways I've seen it half-explained. I dunno why he's talking about using atoms instead of just a nice single-photon-at-a-time LASER. Unless he's trying to emphasize that photons are particles, but in that case the explanation sucks.
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In terms of simply using photons, then the answer is hidden in what what he have yet to understand about light itself. His explanation sounded like a variation of the test using random atoms, and that is very simple to explain (see above.)


