The double-slit experiment is a variant of Young's experiment that allows to demonstrate the wave-particle duality of light and matter. Richard Feynman used to say that the heart of quantum mechanics can be understood by reflecting on this experiment.
Quantum Mechanics says that makes no sense to ask a priori the question about what "really" a quantum object is. This is the meaning of the superposition principle which states that wave and particle are just categories of our language by which we describe what we observe in a quantum experiment. Only the experiment shows us the wave or particle nature.
The next video shows the double-slit experiment in a fantastic and very descriptive way.
Newsletter
Subscribe to our Newsletter. Each week you will get one fantastic free eBook in our newsletter. This week the free ebook is a treaty about the Map of The Sky full of images. Try now! We respect your privacy, no spam at all.
Recent Posts
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Follow me on facebook
Popular Posts
-
The Uncertainty Principle is one of the fundamental laws at the base of Quantum Mechanics. It was postulated by Heisenberg and states precis...
-
The Higgs Boson , called the God Particle , is described in the following video. The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive elementary part...
-
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered three new "habitable zone" planets that are close to Earth's Goldilocks zone '...
-
The upcoming technology in the near future are amazing. In the next overview I will show you, according to popsci.com, what are the main ...
-
The canonical view of predator-prey relationships was first identified by mathematical biologists Alfred Lotka and Vito Volterra in the 1920...
No comments:
Post a Comment