Greetings, dear readers! In today’s blog, we’ll dive headfirst into one of the most thrilling, perplexing, and enlightening domains of science: quantum physics. Specifically, we’ll explore the revolutionary Double-Slit Experiment—an experiment that I assure you, despite its seemingly simple setup, has upended our understanding of the physical world. But first, a gentle warning. Quantum physics, as Werner Heisenberg, one of the founding fathers of this theory, once said, “is a realm where our everyday logic collapses”. So, buckle up for a fascinating, albeit strange, journey. Our tale begins in the 19th century, when light was largely understood as a wave phenomenon. Then, a man named Thomas Young, in a simple but ingenious experiment involving light, two slits on a barrier, and a screen, presented us with an interesting quandary. Young shone light—imagine it as a wave of crests and troughs—on a barrier with two slits. Logically, one might expect to […]
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