In Reply to: RE: The Double-Slit experiment posted by Tre' on May 21, 2015 at 12:29:31:
Well, that's odd because elsewhere on the Internet perhaps Wikipedia it mentions that when individual photons entering the slits are monitored (in a variation of The laser beam experiment the tell tale interference pattern is observed on the other side, proving that the individual photons are acting as particles when they enter the slits AND waves when they produce the interference pattern on the other side.All atomic particles including photons and electrons - and even bowling balls - act simultaneously as waves and particles. So, if you could devise an experiment to test bowling balls with slits big enough for them to go through the results would be the same: the bowling balls would act as particles and waves simultaneously. That was the big news about Young's experiment. Hel-loooo!
From Wikipedia for the double slit experiment:
"In the basic version of this experiment, a coherent light source such as a laser beam illuminates a plate pierced by two parallel slits, and the light passing through the slits is observed on a screen behind the plate.[2][3] The wave nature of light causes the light waves passing through the two slits to interfere, producing bright and dark bands on the screen-a result that would not be expected if light consisted of classical particles.[2][4] However, the light is always found to be absorbed at the screen at discrete points, as individual particles (not waves), the interference pattern appearing via the varying density of these particle hits on the screen.[5] Furthermore, versions of the experiment that include detectors at the slits find that each detected photon passes through one slit (as would a classical particle), and not through both slits (as would a wave).[6][7][8][9][10] These results demonstrate the principle of wave
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- RE: The Double-Slit experiment - geoffkait 13:34:21 05/21/15 (26)
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