double-slit experiment

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Using 10,000 atoms and 1 to probe the Bohr-Einstein debate

The double-slit experiment has often been described as the most beautiful demonstration in physics. In one striking image, it shows the strange dual character of matter and light. When particles such…

The molecule that was also a wave

According to the principles of quantum mechanics, you're a wave – just like light is both a particle and a wave. It's just that your wavelength is so small that your wave nature doesn't ma…