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Thanks, Haborix. I found the original link and will be checking out the original source here: https://www.hitachi.com/rd/portal/highlight/quantum/doubleslit/index.html

OK thanks.

Thank you PeterDonis and DaveE for your replies. You have helped me confirm what has always bothered me in those lectures when they transit from the classical interpretation to the quantum one. Could either of you comment on the possibility of quantum tunneling through the slit barrier without...

So when explaining the results of quantum double slit experiments that have evolved from the classical wave double slit experiment, popular lecturers of quantum mechanics often show an animation of an electron gun or photon source shooting a lot of particles towards a double slit. The effect is...

mathman: Thanks! This is indeed an important distinction which I had not carefully considered. The observed motion of these tiny particles was evidence supporting the atomic theory or so I'm told. And it makes sense. The particles are huge compared to water molecules or gas molecules. The small...

OK, so the collision of a photon with an atom does make it move through the electromagnetic effect. That's good to know, now I'm a little less ignorant. I understand that stochastic means, more or less, random. I know that energy changes form and does not get consumed. So energy gets transformed...

I hope you can bear with me as I warm up to my question regarding Brownian motion. I am currently studying physics on my own and am watching a series of lectures on Quantum Theory. Obviously I am just some guy with an interest in physics and I have no clue. Apparently, Brownian motion is the...