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minus-squarefruitSnackSupremelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoBut then you potentially wouldn’t be interacting with all the photons right?
minus-squareGabuBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoYou are, just not in an intuitive way. Because you’d know the rate of emission of your light source, the information of when a photon passes slit-2 would still “tag” them (whatever photon didn’t pass slit-1 must have passed slit-2).
But then you potentially wouldn’t be interacting with all the photons right?
You are, just not in an intuitive way. Because you’d know the rate of emission of your light source, the information of when a photon passes slit-2 would still “tag” them (whatever photon didn’t pass slit-1 must have passed slit-2).