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| Keywords: Backtrack Young maxima.svg digital alteration of Wikipedia Commons public domain file Young_diffraction svg QV Own 2007-11-24 Patrick Edwin Moran public domain Note One might imagine that by binding a bright spot on a detector screen marking that location moving the detector screen in or out and marking the position of the same maximumum one could then connect the two points and derive a line that would point back to the slit that had emitted the protons landing at the bright spot in question However as this diagram shows the line would not point to a slit but when combined with a point equally removed from the center of the interference pattern to a point behind the screen where the double slits are The source information for the original svg version of this image says <blockquote> A vectorized version of a sketch made by Thomas Young to illustrate the two-slit diffraction of light Narrow slits at A and B act as sources and waves interfering in various phases are shown at C D E and F Young presented the results of this experiment to the Royal Society in 1803 Own work based on the public-domain image Young Diffraction png at en wikipedia org 2007-08-03 Sakurambo Young Diffraction png </blockquote> modified version of copy of PD image Double-slit experiments | ||||
