“What would truly be baffling, is if the experiment were to be performed with two slits, each divided by a suitable partition from the other, throughout the length of the path the electron takes, and the experiment repeated.”
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That has been done, and also by splitting the beam with prisms into two temporally simultaneous beams, and in both cases, with the same results.
A link to literature describing it would be great. What was it called?