Cool video! When physicists are confronted with the fact that light does not act like water waves, they conveniently tell us that this was an old classical physics view, not to be taken literally, and that in quantum mechanics the waves are mathematical probability waves. Yet, they still use the water wave analogy in hundreds of videos.
It's called setting things straight, and not following the herd. The so-called "wave interference pattern" was Young's assumption. It seemed to make sense at the time if you believed light was actually waving. Unfortunately, it led to a lot of irrational "physics". When you admit that the double-slit experiment is simple insignificant reflection of light, as demonstrated in this video, you realize that quantum weirdness is a load of hogwash. The trick is to be rational, something human beings aren't used to.
Cool video! When physicists are confronted with the fact that light does not act like water waves, they conveniently tell us that this was an old classical physics view, not to be taken literally, and that in quantum mechanics the waves are mathematical probability waves. Yet, they still use the water wave analogy in hundreds of videos.
what did I just watch?!
It's called setting things straight, and not following the herd. The so-called "wave interference pattern" was Young's assumption. It seemed to make sense at the time if you believed light was actually waving. Unfortunately, it led to a lot of irrational "physics". When you admit that the double-slit experiment is simple insignificant reflection of light, as demonstrated in this video, you realize that quantum weirdness is a load of hogwash. The trick is to be rational, something human beings aren't used to.