Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>   I'm not the only one who has this "mistaken" notion. From the very
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment article itself
> (emphasis mine):
> 
> "In the path integral formulation, a particle such as a photon takes
> every possible path through space-time to get from point A to point B. In
> the double-slit experiment, point A might be the emitter, and point B the
> screen upon which the interference pattern appears, and a particle takes
> every possible path, including paths ***through both slits at once***, to
> get from A to B."

And the preceding sentence is:

"(Feynman stresses that his formulation is merely a mathematical 
description, not an attempt to describe some "real" process that we 
cannot see.)"


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