: Lol, I did! It's really not that difficult. Take a
: lazer beam. Aim it at a slit or two in an upright
: black divider. Have a nice white wall behind it, or
: something which will visibly reflect the light so the
: pattern on the wall can be observed. Observe the wave
: pattern made on the wall when there are two slits,
: only a single band when there is one slit :-). Quantum
: Mechanics is true fun. :-)
: I first saw this experiment done on the Discovery
: Channel, exactly as I described, and took my little
: key chain lazer and set up the thing.
Well, of course I know about optical and electron two-slit experiments in general, silly. :-P I just don't know who did the variant with delayed data-collection.
Btw, the optical version was done long before QM; it's covered under classical electromagnetics. It's the fact that electrons can be made to do it too that's weird.
: You know, I hate that. Luminal velocity is characterized
: by the space it exists in. If one changes the property
: of space, or avoids it all together, such laws don't
: apply. Hell, light slows to half its speed when
: passing through a diamond, and physicists have
: actually frozen and captured photons in cryogenic
: cesium, releasing it moments later. It's all relative,
: as Einstein himself would admit.
Yeah, I was sloppy, should have said c. That's the important value; lightspeed just happens to match it under the appropriate conditions.
: Aye, the Seemless Universe concept: I have one particle
: here and another over there, at any distance, and
: moving one in one direction, or rotating it, causes
: the corresponding one to act precisely the same. I
: hope this leads to Warp Drive, damnit…I need some
: tachyons to lower a starship's mass to -15500, then we
: can go warp 5! :-)
Incidentally, tachyons don't have negative mass; they have imaginary mass.
: Aye, indeed.
: Don't forget also the sending info from the future
: implications of sending information faster than light.
Oh, I never do. :-)
--SiliconDream
