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StevieTNZ
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In regards to the double-slit experiment, where two waves cancel each other out (causing destructive interference), does that cancel out the particle too? I would assume all particles would form the light areas of the interference pattern.
Just don't understand how the light/dark bands are created. If the particle were a wave, and that wave subsequently canceled by joining with it's twin partner (i.e. the wave coming from the other slit), then the particle has gone bye bye. But I don't think you can destroy particles - and the particle doesn't exist at any more than one point on the screen so having the two waves cross destructively and constructively along the whole screen would seem to make the particle be at more than one location on that screen...
*shrug*
Just don't understand how the light/dark bands are created. If the particle were a wave, and that wave subsequently canceled by joining with it's twin partner (i.e. the wave coming from the other slit), then the particle has gone bye bye. But I don't think you can destroy particles - and the particle doesn't exist at any more than one point on the screen so having the two waves cross destructively and constructively along the whole screen would seem to make the particle be at more than one location on that screen...
*shrug*