Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment
Date	2015-11-27 20:15 +1100
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On 27/11/2015 4:03 PM, Lester Thorpe wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:24:26 +1100, Sylvia Else wrote:
>
>> The double slit experiment was, and remains, consistent
>> with the idea that light is a wave. However, it happens to be consistent
>> with other possibilities as well
>>
>
> What are those other possibilities?
>
>

It's consistent with a particle model (photons) where the probability 
that a photon is found at a point is given by the math of quantum 
mechanics. The waves are still there, but they're in the math, not the 
light.

Sylvia.

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The Original Double Slit Experiment Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 16:01 -0600
  Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-11-27 10:24 +1100
    Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 17:51 -0600
    Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment Lester Thorpe <lt11@thorpe.info> - 2015-11-27 05:03 +0000
      Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 01:19 -0500
        Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment jay moseley <jaymoseley@hotmail.com> - 2015-11-27 02:09 -0800
          Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 11:25 -0500
            Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment Lester Thorpe <lt11@thorpe.info> - 2015-11-27 16:42 +0000
          Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 09:42 -0800
      Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-11-27 20:15 +1100
        Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 01:29 -0800
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        Re: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, explained. benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-28 13:23 -0500
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    Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 22:54 -0800
    Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-27 10:41 -0800
      Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-11-28 15:38 +1100
        Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-28 03:27 -0500
        Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 10:33 -0800
      Re: The Original Double Slit Experiment "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 10:32 -0800
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