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The Quantum Nature of the Student

The Double Slit Metaphor
There is an experiment. It’s quite simple really: There are 2 walls, one in front of another. The first is solid, but with a rectangular slit in it. The second, behind the slit wall, is made up of some sort of lighter, malleable material. Some distance away from these walls, again in front of them, is a cannon. This cannon shoots marbles randomly at the slit wall, and those that make it through the slit, record their impact on the further wall by denting it. The denting is important here as the marbles are meant to represent particles of matter. What happens is then expected: a rectangular like shape similar to that of the slit is recorded on the far wall.

Now we replace the slit wall with a wall with 2 slits and fire the cannon again, randomly shooting the marbles at the wall. Again, the result on the far wall is a record of the double slit wall. We have 2 impact points the shape and size of the slits. QED.
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