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| Begin Part One
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| In chapter one, book three, of "The Feynman Lectures On Physics",
Professor
| Richard Feynman had this to say about the double slit experiment:
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| "We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible, absolutely
| impossible, to explain in any classical way,


Nothing is impossible when it comes to explanations. Feynmann was a fool
for saying that, "classical" is far to broad a description. In classical
physics,
it was predicted Feynmann would die. Feynmann is dead, classical physics
is proven correct.




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| 1) Slit open. The electron passes through the slit and a detection event
is
| registered on the detector at the target.

The car passes beneath the bridge.


| or,
| 2) Slit closed. The electron is stopped by the slit material and no
| detection event is registered at the target.

The bridge has collapse across the road.

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| An important thing

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| For an arbitrary position where the electron has, say, a 40% chance of
| passing through the slit,

If you aim the car at the bridge abutment it will bounce off at an angle.
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| End Part One

Thank gawd for that.
An important thing to keep in mind is that this tirade was suppose to
explain
double slit that couldn't be done classically.

Androcles.