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Swamp Thing said:Is this a valid, and mathematically equivalent, description to Marcella's?
Close enough.
For completeness I need to also mention while this is a more more satisfactory analysis of the double slit its still not quite correct:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.2408v1.pdf
It's not as bad as the above makes out because these type of simplifying assumptions are made all the time in mathematical modelling. But it is an unfortunate characteristic of some areas in physics that as you proceed from beginning explanations you see what went before was wrong. In this case that would be the wave particle duality at the beginning level, to the intermediate one once you have learned the QM formalism (that would be the Marcella paper), to the advanced level (that would be the above).
Thanks
Bill