1. I used a polarizer and the light still appears to be expanding out horizontally like a wave. This is where I am confused. If the wave function collapsed, I always thought it would be like this:
Instead, the pattern spreads out very wide...
But overtime, if single photons were fired repeatedly, having the orthogonal filters should result in two spots. Perhaps I should show an image of my results to help clear up my question. Attached is what I got when orthogonal filters were used. From my understanding, doing this experiment with...
Now I am confused as to how this could ever be quantum, even if you fired one photon at a time. I thought that the wave function collapse would mean that the photon starts acting out as a particle, meaning there should be two spots of light. In this experiment, you just get two waves that...
Thank you everybody for the input. I think I have a bearing of what all of this means now.
When I had orthogonal filters on each slit, the result looked very much like the single slit experiment. The light extended outwards horizontally, but no interference was present. Does this mean both...
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Having performed this experiment, I have gotten clean results. Essentially, a double slit is made by putting an electron beam in the way of a wire with orthogonal polarizers on either side. This destroys the expected interference pattern since the polarized...