Slit Experiment (other)
The double-slit experiment In modern physics, the double-slit experiment is a demonstration that light and matter can display characteristics of both classically defined waves and particles; moreover, it displays the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics ... is a demonstration that light and matter can be modelled by both waves and particles. Slit experiment may also refer to: * Young's interference experiment, the classical version of the double-slit experiment * Single slit diffraction, the experiment with a single slit {{disambiguation ...
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Double-slit Experiment
In modern physics, the double-slit experiment is a demonstration that light and matter can display characteristics of both classically defined waves and particles; moreover, it displays the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics, quantum mechanical phenomena. This type of experiment was first performed by Thomas Young (scientist), Thomas Young in 1801, as a demonstration of the wave behavior of visible light. At that time it was thought that light consisted of ''either'' waves ''or'' particles. With the beginning of modern physics, about a hundred years later, it was realized that light could in fact show behavior characteristic of ''both'' waves ''and'' particles. In 1927, Davisson–Germer experiment, Davisson and Germer demonstrated that electrons show the same behavior, which was later extended to atoms and molecules. Thomas Young's experiment with light was part of classical physics long before the development of quantum mechanics and the concept of wave–pa ...
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