Re: interference question

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Date: 09/22/04


Date: 22 Sep 2004 12:03:49 -0700

dharder@bnl-dot-gov.no-spam.invalid (DAH) wrote in message news:<41517f54$1_2@127.0.0.1>...
> Take Young's double slit interference experiment as an example. Shine
> light on the slits. If there was no screen/detector present behind
> the slits, and if the experiment was done in perfect vacuum, would
> there still be interference in space where the screen would normally
> be? In other words, is a material medium required for interference
> of waves to occur. How would one devise an experiment to test that,
> without the experimental setup negating the test?

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody puts a screen under
it to catch the pattern of leaves, will someobdy write a
palindromic Haiku about it?

Socks



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