The double-slit experiment is the most important experiment in the history of physics. Richard Feynman called it a phenomenon which is impossible to explain in any classical way and which has in it...
The double-slit experiment is the most important experiment in the history of physics.
Richard Feynman called it a phenomenon which is impossible to explain in any classical way and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics.
When particles are fired at a barrier with two slits without detection at the slits, they produce an interference pattern on the detection screen - a pattern characteristic of waves, not particles.
The particles appear to pass through both slits simultaneously, as waves, and interfere with themselves.