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Old 20-November-2003, 11:36 AM
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Celestial Mechanic wrote:

Care to explain the interference fringes that arise in the double-slit experiment?

cyreks reply:

From what I understsand,
These experiments use a series of light pulses. A lot of photon pulses will trace out a wave pattern.
When the light is reduced to a single pulse, only a spot appears on the screen.
They refer to this as a 'wave collapse'.

It has been a long time since I read about these experiments.
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