Re: Double slit experiment explained.

From: Bjoern Feuerbacher (feuerbac_at_thphys.uni-heidelberg.de)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:51:58 +0100

Rushtown wrote:
> The results of the double slit experiment seem paradoxical because scientists
> make one incorrect assumption and forget one tenet of relativity theory.
> The incorrect assumption is that a photon or an electron can be a particle.

No one uses that assumption. Physicists only say that under certain
circumstances, photons and electrons can behave like a particle.

> And the tenet they forget is that time does not flow at the speed of light.

"time does (not) flow at the speed of light" makes no sense. Try again.

[snip remainder, based on this]

Bye,
Bjoern

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