Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Double-Slit Test Holds Up Stripped to Quantum Essentials

MIT physicists confirm that, like Superman, light has two identities that are impossible to see at once. MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics. Their findings demonstrate, with atomic-level precision, the dual yet evasive nature of light. They also happen to confirm that Albert Einstein was wrong about this particular quantum scenario. The experiment in question is the double-slit experiment, which was first performed in 1801 by the British scholar Thomas Young to show how light behaves as a wave. Today, with the formulation of quantum mechanics, the double-slit experiment is now known for its surprisingly simple demonstration of a head-scratching reality: that light exists as both a particle and a wave. Stranger still, this duality cannot be simultaneously observed. Seeing light in the form of particles instantly obscures its wave-like nature, and vice versa.

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Double-Slit Test Holds Up Stripped to Quantum Essentials

I'm surprised our mentally challenged bleeper let that title stand.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-30 09:07 AM

1. I think of a line from a respectable 1934 novel that would get by the Retort hamsters:

"... has a woman ever had sexual congress with three men simultaneously?"

#2 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-07-30 09:35 AM

1. I think of a line from a respectable 1934 novel that would get by the Retort hamsters:
"... has a woman ever had sexual congress with three men simultaneously?"
#2 | Posted by Dbt2

Now you've done it! They're gonna bleep the word "Congress." I hope you're proud of yourself!

Actually, that ban make this site slightly more pleasant.

Doubleplusgood job!

#3 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-30 11:19 AM

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