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If you fire a single particle just once, you don’t get an interference pattern, right? You get a single impact.
by qsdf38100 2y ago
If you fire a single particle just once, you don’t get an interference pattern, right? You get a single impact.
- JoeAltmaier 2y agoWhat's the difference between that, and firing a singleton particles periodically? Shouldn't that just be a collection of 'single impacts'? Yet it isn't.
- itishappy 2y agoYou get both. You get a single impact in a location determined by the interference pattern.
- DavidHull 2y agoYes. The single particle interferes with itself. However the effect disappears if you measure which slit the particle went through.
- tetris11 2y agoAh, this is where I was tripping myself up. Thanks
- qsdf38100 2y agoAh, I see what you mean. Yes the sample you get comes from a distribution determined by the interference. My point was that 1 sample in isolation won’t give you information about the underlying distribution, except that it’s non zero at that point, maybe?