Timeline for What happens to the physical properties of electrons after diffraction?
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| Aug 2, 2020 at 5:51 | comment | added | Dunois | thank you for the clarification! That makes a lot of sense! | |
| Aug 1, 2020 at 18:39 | comment | added | jinawee | @Dunois I think one could say diffraction is a mathematical phenomenon, you have a function f(x,t) defined in spacetime that satisfies some differential equation. If you impose some restrictions on f, such us being zero at the slit, then f will spread in a fancy way. That's what we call diffraction and the wavefunction satisfies that. Mathematically it's very similar to the electric field and light diffraction. So yes, the probability changes in a fancy way. | |
| Aug 1, 2020 at 15:57 | comment | added | Dunois | Following along in this context, are phenomena such as interference and diffraction merely alterations to the probability of finding a certain "particle" at a particular "location" in space and time? | |
| Aug 1, 2020 at 15:55 | comment | added | Dunois | Could you elaborate on "the wavefunction (probability wave) diffracts"? I thought diffraction is a physical phenomenon? How can the (non-physical) probability "wave" be subject to a physical phenomenon like that? Or am I severely misunderstanding this? | |
| Nov 19, 2013 at 19:19 | history | answered | jinawee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |