Double-Slit Experiment in Time, Not Space

TheMatt writes "Thomas Young's double-slit experiment is a classic experiment that helped establish the wave-like nature of light. Since then, it has been done with atoms, buckyballs, and biomolecules. It has even been seen in a single molecule, and the single electron version was voted the most beautiful experiment by Physics World readers (covered previously on Slashdot). Now, PhysicsWeb is reporting that Gerhard Paulus and coworkers have conducted the double-slit experiment using a double-slit in time, not space. The "slit" was a crafted femtosecond pulse consisting of one-and-a-half cycles--say, two maxima and one minima--passed through an argon gas. Each maxima has a probability of ionizing an argon atom and producing an electron. The electrons were accelerated to a detector which observed an interference pattern since the detector had no idea which maximum produced the electron."

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Wow you sound pretty much like every pmpus pimple on the ass of progress since the beggining of time.

What are you some math GOD...surely no one else has the same capacity of understanding as yourself. Give it a rest. The man has a theory and it sounds like he believes in it enough to stake his career on it...so when was the last time you had a theory that you believed in so much that you would stake your career on it??