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Re: Eh bien non ! Justement ! Pas de photon dans l'expérience de Young. --
Posted by , Feb 28,2002,21:14 Index  Forum

Au lieu de m'exprimer comme je l'ai fait, j'aurais du mentionner que l'allusion à l'expérience de Young (avec un électron au lieu d'un photon) ne constituait pas une erreur puisqu'elle est parfaitement réalisable (et réalisée). Il est cependant vrai qu'historiquement, Young réalisa son expérience avec la lumière et non avec un électron (impossible à l'époque).

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/21st_century_science/lectures/lec12.html

"...So the question is will matter also produce interference patterns. The answer is yes, tested by firing a stream of electrons. However, notice that electrons do act as particles, as do photons. For example, they make a single strike on a cathode ray tube screen. So if we lower the number of electrons in the beam to, say, one per second. Does the interference pattern disappear?

The answer is no, we do see the individual electrons (and photons) strike the screen, and with time the interference pattern builds up. Notice that with such a slow rate, each photon (or electron) is not interacting with other photons to produce the interference pattern. In fact, the photons are interacting with themselves, within their own wave packets to produce interference.

But wait, what if we do this so slow that only one electron or one photon passes through the slits at a time, then what is interfering with what? i.e. there are not two waves to destructively and constructively interfere. It appears, in some strange way, that each photon or electron is interfering with itself. That its wave nature is interfering with its own wave (!)..."