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Wednesday, August 08, 2018

Quantum theory

Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality Anil Ananthaswamy Dutton (2018)
Blue light splitting into wave like interference pattern during a double slit experiment.
Bands of light in a double-slit experiment.Credit: Timm Weitkamp/CC BY 3.0
Philip Ball lauds a study of a famous experiment and the insights it offers into a thoroughly maddening theory.According to the eminent physicist Richard Feynman, the quantum double-slit experiment puts us “up against the paradoxes and mysteries and peculiarities of nature”. By Feynman’s logic, if we could understand what is going on in this deceptively simple experiment, we would penetrate to the heart of quantum theory — and perhaps all its puzzles would dissolve.

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