Dialogue about Quantum Mechanics

Bohr:

And you HAVE defended yourself, after all. You created one thought experiment after the other to undermine the Uncertainty Principle - the experiment with the double slit, for example.


Einstein:

Between the first screen and the photographic plate I imagine a second screen now, with TWO slits.


Bohr:

When a beam of electrons comes through the left-hand slit, we see light and dark stripes on the photographic plate.


Einstein:

An interference pattern.


Bohr:

It is created because the electron waves are superimposed, getting stronger in some places and cancelling each other out in others.


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