Has anyone else seen and understands the double slit experiment?
I know about it. I'm not sure if anyone truly understands it though. It demonstrates some bizzare features of physics that are still very much a mystery to scientists.
I haven't seen it performed, read about it in physics several books. They shine a beam of light on a screen about 3' from a wall, as the light hits the wall it sets up 2 circular patterns on it at the same time thereby showing the duality of lights nature as both a wave and beam and that it does pass through Both slits at the Time..
it was covered in my physics classes. Cool stuff.
Shot one photon at a time and you still get the pattern of shooting two light sources.
I find it fascinating that electromagnetic radiation doesn't behave in a wave form unless it's actually being observed. Kind of brings new meaning to the "if a tree falls in a forest" quandry.
It just goes to show how much we have yet to learn when it comes to quantum physics.