The double-slit experiment was designed to investigate whether light is a wave or a particle. It is one of the most famous and weirdest experiments in physics.

The idea behind the double slit experiment is even if the photons are sent through the slits one at a time, there’s still a wave present to produce the interference pattern.

In this classic experiment, light was passed through two physical slits, creating an interference pattern that displayed light’s wave properties.

Whether and how you observe your own experiment really does change the outcome, and the double-slit experiment is the perfect way to show how.

In the famous double-slit experiment, an interference pattern consisting of dark and bright bands emerges when a beam of light hits two narrow slits. The same effect has also been seen with ...

Others in the top 10 included Galileo’s experiments with falling bodies, Millikan’s oil-drop experiment and Newton’s separation of sunlight with a prism. Young’s original double-slit interference ...

The results were immediately astonishing. Double slit experiments performed with light produce interference patterns, as they do for any wave... [+] you can imagine.

The double-slit experiment consists of light passing through two slits separated by a small space – now researchers have performed it with small gaps in time instead ...

Imperial physicists have recreated the famous double-slit experiment, which showed light behaving as particles and a wave, in time rather than space.

It impressively demonstrates the wave nature of light and the phenomenon of interference. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have now rearranged this classic ...