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Double-slit (lemmy.ml)
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[-] elxeno@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

What if u look at only one of the slits?

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Same deal, you're still measuring and can still determine which photons passed through which slit.

[-] fruitSnackSupreme@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

But then you potentially wouldn't be interacting with all the photons right?

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You are, just not in an intuitive way. Because you'd know the rate of emission of your light source, the information of when a photon passes slit-2 would still "tag" them (whatever photon didn't pass slit-1 must have passed slit-2).

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