Re: Proof that macintosh is better than VMS

Correction to the laser-LCD experiment analysis (sorry):

On Mar 16, 9:44 am, AEF <spamsink2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

[...]
Here's an excellent example to drive the point home. I saw a talk
about this in graduate school in the late 1980's. Consider the
following experimental set up:

F A B

[-LASER-]-----|-------\-----------------\
| |
| |
| - LCD
| |
| |
\-----------------\

C D

[...]

It gets better. The LCD can be switched ON or OFF rapidly enough so
that it can be switched AFTER the photon passes through A but BEFORE
the photon (if it's in the ABD path) reaches it (the LCD). You can
guess what happens. If you switch the LCD from OFF to ON while the
photon is in mid-flight, you lose the interference pattern. Some of
the photons traverse path ACD, thereby striking the LCD, and some
^^^

That should be ABD, of course.


traverse the path ACD. No interference is observed. If you switch it
[...]

AEF
.

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