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RE: Wave-particle duality aka the central pillar of quantum mechanics
I am about half way through the post but I have to go and do something (I wanted something commented so I could easily find my way back here) Anyways I have a couple of comments to make but I shall wait until I am finished. So far it is a good read, I like it.
Anyways @lemouth I was curious about something involving the double slit experiment. When discussed in my high school textbook it stated that there we points of complete cancellation (nodes) but with the graph that you have posted it shows that it never actually hits 0. I am just curious if there are points of complete interference or if it just has positions of maximum and minimum probability?
The interference pattern does not necessarily means that the minimum is zero. It could be but this is not necessarily the case. What is important is that you have regions with many points (constructive interferences) and region with not that many points (destructive interferences).
Also here, note that the figure is homemade, so that one could get the feeling of what is going on. It is not at all meant to be precise :p
Okay thank you, sorry. The post is very well written!
Don't be sorry! I always like comments, questions and discussions :)