 Quote by copernicus1
Why did Young specifically perform a double-slit experiment to demonstrate the wave nature of light
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Have you seen Young's original description to the Royal Society in 1803? He did not do a "double slit" experiment as we would describe it today. The first experiment that he describes, uses a single obstacle of width 1/30 inch, which is basically the complement of a single slit.
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