Alex McColgan
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 6d ago
Alex McColgan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Or both a wave and a particle at once.
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Of course, even this is not the full picture.
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To be honest, we aren't completely sure about the full picture even now.
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Instead, we have more results that are contradictory.
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Let's go back to the double slit experiment.
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Armed with the knowledge of photons, physicists once again took a look at the double slit experiment.
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Experimental techniques had improved in the last 100 years, and it was now possible to emit a single photon of light at a time.
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So, the double slit experiment was done again.
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This time, only a single photon would be sent through the slit, onto a detector on the far
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When this was done, the detector registered the arrival of the photon at just a single point.
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So, light was behaving like a particle again.
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But then, why had it interfered with itself in the previous version of the experiment?
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Scientists had an idea.
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They sent through multiple photons, one at a time, and plotted the result on the detector.
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And this is where the result became really strange.
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Once again, the detector started seeing the photons arriving at single points, one at a time.
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But bafflingly, the arriving photons started creating a pattern.
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It was the interference pattern.
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The proof that light behaved like a wave.
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But strangely enough, this was only occurring when a single photon was going through at a time.
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