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To: James C. Bennett

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Case 1: Pass electron beam through double slit, after which beam strikes passive detection screen. Results on screen shows a wave-like pattern of troughs and valleys of intensity as if the electrons are interfering with each other like two sets of ocean waves.

Case 2 (close one slit): Pass electron beam through single slit, after which beam strikes passive detection screen. Pattern on screen does not show a wave-like pattern (instead, particle-like).

And interestingly, in the double-slit case, even if you slow down the electron beam so that each electron goes one at a time, the pattern that emerges on the detection screen still shows the wave-like pattern, as if the electrons as a group are interfering with each other like the two sets of ocean waves.


53 posted on 07/24/2010 10:36:38 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Basically what you mentioned does not have anything to do with the act of “observation” affecting the choice of what the electron wants to do, right? No hocus-pocus “electron intelligence”...

Just that the electrons produce interference patterns through a double slit, whether they are fired en-masse or one by one, and they produce a single pattern, when fired through a single slit.

Did I infer the above correctly?


55 posted on 07/24/2010 10:55:35 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
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