POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Double-slit experiment : Re: Double-slit experiment Server Time
28 Jul 2024 10:17:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Double-slit experiment  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 3 Feb 2006 10:25:00
Message: <web.43e375244080b391731f01d10@news.povray.org>
"Walid" <wha### [at] onlinefr> wrote:
> OK, let's forget about the "waves" interference part. Is it possible
> to simulate the "particle" interference where particles are randomly
> generating patterns of interference on a screen.

Interference is a wave phenomenon. Particles can only interfere with each
other if they can be described by a wave function (i.e., if they are
behaving like waves). The theory that describes electron interference is
the same as that which describes light interference. If there is a
difference, the quantum physicists haven't figured it out yet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-particle_duality

Bill


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