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Re: Diffraction patterns from irregular slits

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From: Blair P. Houghton
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 01:46
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In article <1992Nov8.235607.24940@EE.Stanford.EDU> siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman) writes:
>   Well, assuming you really have a collection of regular slits, and
>they're coherently illuminated (which is more or less implied in your
>statement of the problem), you can just _add_ coherently the
>diffracted field (not intensity!) patterns of the individual slits.

I think Jack Sarfatti is capable of explaining to you why
this is very much like the situation with adding-the-
wavefunctions-(not-the-probability-densities) for
particle/wave slit experiments.

				--Blair
				  "He can even quote Feynman on it,
				   if he's got that much integrity."
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From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
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Subject: Re: Diffraction patterns from irregular slits
Date: 9 Nov 1992 01:46:59 GMT
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