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What I'm going to say may sound senseless, but I'd like to know why my point of view has been ruled out. I saw some videos where a person points a laser through a slit, then as he/she reduces. As they reduce the width of the slit what should be a single point(the point where the laser hits, the surface) becomesdiffracted image spreads out, like this:   

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I thought, well, maybeCan this pattern be viewed as the slit is closed the passage becomes sort of congested by photons and they bounce on each other and on the slit(because it has a thickness)consequence of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, producing the pattern that we see in the image. I'd be gladapplied to know why this possibility has been ruled out.photons?

What I'm going to say may sound senseless, but I'd like to know why my point of view has been ruled out. I saw some videos where a person points a laser through a slit, then as he/she reduces the width of the slit what should be a single point(the point where the laser hits the surface) becomes this:  enter image description here

I thought, well, maybe as the slit is closed the passage becomes sort of congested by photons and they bounce on each other and on the slit(because it has a thickness), producing the pattern that we see in the image. I'd be glad to know why this possibility has been ruled out.

I saw some videos where a person points a laser through a slit. As they reduce the width of the slit, the diffracted image spreads out, like this: 

enter image description here

Can this pattern be viewed as a consequence of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, applied to photons?

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Single slit experiment as a practical example of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

What I'm going to say may sound senseless, but I'd like to know why my point of view has been ruled out. I saw some videos where a person points a laser through a slit, then as he/she reduces the width of the slit what should be a single point(the point where the laser hits the surface) becomes this: enter image description here

I thought, well, maybe as the slit is closed the passage becomes sort of congested by photons and they bounce on each other and on the slit(because it has a thickness), producing the pattern that we see in the image. I'd be glad to know why this possibility has been ruled out.