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Double Slit Experiment, now with 20% less particle loss!
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Yep. The bottom picture is a regular, predictable result of light going separately through the top and bottom slits (behaving like particles that can only be in one place at one time).
The top picture is the light going through both slits at the same time and interfering with itself, producing the pattern you see (behaving like waves that can be in multiple places at once with different probabilities).
Therefore, light is a particle and a wave at the same time, flipping between the two depending on circumstances such as measuring it