Re: questions - double slit


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> "Ron Baker, Pluralitas!" <stoshu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> ...
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>> Note, when you put a detector at a slit you've blocked
>> that slit whether the detector is on or not.
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> "We would like to think that the particle detectors at the slits are
> affecting the passage of the electron -- perhaps deflecting it, or
> modifying
> it's path, or in some other way influencing the experiment.

Any detectable interaction at the slits necessarily (by
conservation of energy and momentum) modifies
the incident particle's de Broglie wavelength, whereby
coherence with the incident wave is destroyed.

[Old Man]

> rb


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