POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Quotable : Re: Quotable Server Time
8 Sep 2024 03:14:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quotable  
From: Warp
Date: 2 Jun 2008 03:41:22
Message: <4843a422@news.povray.org>
Michael Zier <mic### [at] mirizide> wrote:
> 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.

  Wasn't it "impossible" to accurately measure the place and velocity
of a quantum particle? ;)

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

  But I believe it can be done by shooting just one electron at a time,
so the electron indeed interferes only with itself, not with other
electrons.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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