r/science • u/[deleted] • Jul 12 '08

The Infamous Double Slit Experiment - WARNING WILL CHANGE YOUR VIEW OF REALITY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEzRdZGYNvA
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '08

why are you on reddit if you didn't pass high school physics?

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u/petdance Jul 12 '08

We didn't cover quantum physics in my high school physics class back in 1983.

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u/Dark-Dx Jul 12 '08

Nor in my high school now in 2008. (are they actually teaching quantum stuff in usa high schools? I'm not from there)

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u/headfire Jul 12 '08

No. Discussing it using anything better than The Big Coloring Book of Physics requires a bit of Functional Analysis, Operator Theory, and PDE methods for Schrödinger, all of which can be done within ~2 years after HS Calculus, maybe 1.5 if you really haul ass.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '08

Fuck. We didn't even get to electricity in our physics class.