Most Beautiful Experiment in Physics

An anonymous reader writes "Robert P. Crease has concluded his poll asking what the most beautiful experiment in physics is. The winner was Young's double slit experiment performed using a single electron. Attentive readers will remember that Slashdot had a discussion of Crease's question previously, which Crease mentions in his current article." If you're unfamiliar with the experiment, Google pulls up a bunch of applets and demonstrations.

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Re:Simple != Simple

[ImaLamer]

it demonstrates that light travels as waves, until you fire only 1 photon then you prove it travels as particles as well.

Actually, it proves that light travels as either a wave or particle.

It depends on the experiment. An experiment looking for particles will show particles, and waves, waves.

Check out The Copenhagen Interpretation

I love Quantum Theory so much I read the same book three times: In Search of Schrodinger's Cat. Might be out of date, but an easy read for us lay men.