Timeline for Why does interference pattern remain constant?
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| Feb 24 at 11:28 | answer | added | Vercassivelaunos | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 24 at 10:57 | answer | added | phil342 | timeline score: -2 | |
| Dec 29, 2019 at 3:46 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Dec 29, 2019 at 0:38 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | Keep in mind that every time you see a visible light the field strength is oscillating. Any detector system which registered the temporal oscillations of an interference fringe would also register the temporal oscillations of a plain light source. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 20:18 | answer | added | sammy gerbil | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 20:17 | comment | added | John Rennie | You are quite correct, but the frequency of visible light is of order $10^{15}$ Hz, so the oscillations in brightness at M are too rapid to see. | |
| Dec 28, 2019 at 19:57 | history | asked | user240696 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |