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Physics World

Two slits good, three slits great

Ted Forgan

Published Nov 1, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

I feel that your Frontiers article “Quantum theory holds strong” (September p4) may have been somewhat misleading in its description of the results of a three-slit interference experiment.
DOI
10.1088/2058-7058/23/11/32

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