POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Quotable : Re: Quotable Server Time
8 Sep 2024 03:14:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quotable  
From: Michael Zier
Date: 2 Jun 2008 03:37:01
Message: <4843a31d$1@news.povray.org>
> 
>   If there's "no evidence", what do you call the interference pattern?
> "Non-evidence"?

Don't forget: A single electron doesn't make an interference pattern. It 
produces a bright spot on the fluorescence screen saying: Exactly here 
and nowhere else the electron hit the screen.

Only if you observe many many events and add up their positions they 
converge to an interference pattern.


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