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Two-Slit Experiment And Varying Electron Momentum
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[QUOTE="NaiveTay, post: 5472615, member: 592182"] Yes, that makes sense. We never know the initial state of a particle or of our apparatus, so we can't ever find the exact value for the final state because we need to compare initial to final in order to find the change. But that's not my question. The world could be completely classical and those limits would still be imposed. The two-slit experiment shows more than that. A particle's position and momentum aren't just unknowable, even more, those two properties aren't independent of each other in any respect. If the problem were just our ignorance of the situation, a particle would only go through one slit and it wouldn't interfere with itself, though where it would hit would still be indeterminable. But a single particle is affected by having both slits open, so that tells us something of the intrinsic properties beyond just the fact that we can't know where they exist and how they are moving. So that brings me back to my question. If an entity, which we call a particle/wave, doesn't have exclusively existing properties we call position and momentum, then the way a particle interferes with itself should change if we vary one of these properties. But I haven't seen the experimental evidence of this so I don't really know. I'm askin about modifications of the two-slit experiment and how they affect the results... The equations more or less make sense to me. [/QUOTE]
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