Two Slits Interference Is Compatible with Particles’ Trajectories
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We propose a simple numerical experiment of two slits interference of particles. It disproves the popular belief that such an interference is incompatible with a knowledge which slit each particle came through or, more generally, “quantum particles could not have trajectories”. Our model is an illustration to the contextual interpretation of quantum probabilities. It is all mysterious. And the more you look at it the more mysterious it seems. Richard Feynman, [4, § 1–5].
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تاریخ انتشار 2008