just had a wall with two holes in it and then you send a bunch of ping-pong balls i don't know flying at the wall so these are the two paths that they can take then they're gonna land on this side with two stripes right if you sent water waves like a ripple would go through here then that breaks up into two sources so it's almost like you have two sources of waves and two sources of waves interfere with each other and i did that with two yoga balls in the water we have two point sources of the waves and you end up getting those stripes because you have areas where the waves are cancelling and areas where they're adding up sometimes the waves cancel you get dark sometimes they add you get light what's called these interference patterns this is showing what waves do when you pass them through a double slit then this is the best part what happens if we if we send electrons through the double slit would you expect to see like the two lines or the the wave interference i'm gonna go with the first one i mean that would make sense because they're particles it would make sense right but ta-da you see waves like they sent those through individually individually one at a time okay before we learn how that experiment is possible a quick message this portion of the video was sponsored by google pixel NUMBER_TOKEN. as creators you'd be surprised how much we film last minute or in the moment on our phones and the google pixel NUMBER_TOKEN is the ultimate tool for creatives looking to film an experiment or a candid moment with your editor the pixel NUMBER_TOKEN has some incredible crazy tools like the magic eraser which gives you the ability to remove annoying background objects like photobombers or traffic cones from an otherwise clean beautiful shot the magic eraser tool is surprisingly easy to use and all of this is powered with google's own chip the google tensor chip which was designed for machine learning tasks that's just the cool tech that i find interesting you will notice the super clear four times optical zoom when taking photos or you'll get to use the live translation that adapts to your language to help you understand and communicate in many other languages and my pixel NUMBER_TOKEN runs on the fastest NUMBER_TOKENg network t-mobile it's the fastest pixel ever on the fastest NUMBER_TOKENg network check out google pixel NUMBER_TOKEN pro at t-mobile thank you to google pixel NUMBER_TOKEN for sponsoring that portion of the video and now back to how it's possible for electrons to act like waves like they sent those through individually individually one at a time okay and they're building up and over time they're building up not in two lines but in this interference pattern yeah yeah that's cool that's pretty weird right if you got one particle how could it be creating an interference right that's the question the electron can be in a superposition of going through the left slit and the right slit at the same time and that's why we see the wave interference pattern watching back through all this i realize that i'm missing something which is that in person i went on and on about how the electron is not a physical particle it's this wave function that goes through the left and the right slit with some superposition and interferes with itself and that's why you get the pattern but it just got really long-winded so i cut it all out but the point is that the electron is not a physical particle
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