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Re: Examining the Slit Experiment

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Originally Posted by Boerseun View Post
What I want to know, seeing as we're discussing this particular experiment, is how on earth do they guarantee that a single photon was released in order to produce the results?
This is actually a topic of much debate in the world of quantum optics. However, we could just as easily do this experiment with electrons, where it is much easier to deal with the particle nature.
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