A Single Electron Builds Its Own Pattern #Shorts

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[00:00:00]In 1989, a Japanese physicist fired electrons one at a time.

[00:00:04]What appeared on his screen rewrote [music] what particles can do. Akira Tonomura at Hitachi used an electron biprism. He fired [music] single electrons through a double slit one at a time. Each electron made one [music] dot on the detector. After thousands of dots, an interference pattern emerged from dots that should not interfere. One electron interfering [music] with itself.

[00:00:28]The 1989 American Journal of Physics paper became the cleanest demonstration of quantum wave behavior. Subscribe.

[00:00:36]When a single thing acts like a wave, your idea of thing has a problem.