How Physicists Created the Double Slit Experiment In Time

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The famous double-slit experiment, which demonstrated that light is both a wave and a particle, has been performed using “slits in time”.
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0:00 Light Can Interfere in Time as well as Space
0:52 The Classic Double Slit Experiment
2:21 The Double Slit Experiment in Time
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6:15 The Experimental Results
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  • @donseesyourshaydim7529
    @donseesyourshaydim7529 Жыл бұрын

    If you get 200 more views today, 2/3 of it is me rewatching

  • @DavidAspden

    @DavidAspden

    Жыл бұрын

    And a few me.

  • @djksfhakhaks

    @djksfhakhaks

    Жыл бұрын

    But what colour would your view be

  • @oscargr_

    @oscargr_

    Жыл бұрын

    Why not finish watching that last time?

  • @billvvoods

    @billvvoods

    Жыл бұрын

    Same here.

  • @QIKUGAMES-QIKU

    @QIKUGAMES-QIKU

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Johnald Wick hahahah😂

  • @tylershepard4269
    @tylershepard4269 Жыл бұрын

    The interference pattern from a double slit is (essentially) the Fourier transform of the spatial pattern of the slits (integrating over a complex exponential in space), so it would make sense that it would be true in time as well. But I also am coming at this from an electrical engineering perspective where we love to apply the Fourier transform.

  • @gcewing

    @gcewing

    Жыл бұрын

    I was thinking the same thing. You don't need to invoke quantum mechanics to understand this, you can get the same result from classical electromagnetism and Fourier transform theory.

  • @ronaldbrody9

    @ronaldbrody9

    Жыл бұрын

    My guy we all aren't Einstein. This isn't english.

  • @ronaldbrody9

    @ronaldbrody9

    Жыл бұрын

    This paragraph made me feel more incompetent than any paragraph I've ever read and my iq is 120 lmfao.

  • @balthazarasquith

    @balthazarasquith

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@ronaldbrody9 same here brother lol I feel really thick watching Ben's videos lol

  • @dc37009

    @dc37009

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ronaldbrody9 Do what I do, pace yourself !

  • @davidgreenwitch
    @davidgreenwitch Жыл бұрын

    Maybe the situation can be explained easier. What is important - and when thinking about it, should wonder more people - is the question why light is actually bending at the two splits in the classical experiment. Because this makes the result clearer. The reason why a laser beam can behave like a ray until it hits the split and afterwards like a wave, is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The moment you define the location with high precision, the more you mess up the impulse. Thus, with the light passing a very tiny (certain) split, you create an impulse pretty random (uncertain). That is why suddenly the light can change the direction and move to the "side" instead of continuing its former trajectory. It is then when it can interact with another wave (even with its own) and get "diverted" (simplified speaking). With the temporal splits, it is the same. The shorter the impulse of the photon is, the more specific its location is defined. However, that gives a more random impulse. This is already well documented for single impulses. A "pure" red light (or laser of a single wavelength) in super short impulses (e.g. photons of synchrotron emitters) is located at a certain location and thus changes colors - since a different (uncertain) impulse means an uncertain energy. Another energy in light means another color. So if your light pulse is just short enough, it may change from red to green or so. This is not new, but might help understanding the next step. Like with the two waves in the spatial experiment, the two waves in short temporal distance can interfere with each other. This interferance is the pattern we see. Maybe that helps a bit.

  • @kayakMike1000

    @kayakMike1000

    2 ай бұрын

    Light acts as a wave. Waves have a size defined by their wavelength. Particles are much smaller, perhaps points in space. Light has energy and it takes time to propagate. Heisenberg uncertainty extends to energy and time. Seems clear to me

  • @kasuha
    @kasuha Жыл бұрын

    There's no surprise about broadening the spectrum on short pulses of light, it's similar result to when you do a fourier analysis on short pulse of sound - even if the sound itself is constant pitch at single frequency, the transition from "no sound" to "sound" and back introduces whole spectrum of sound frequencies that need to add up to form such a pulse. I'm somewhat curious how they arranged things for the two pulses to interfere, though. So It could be equally interesting to see the description of the instrument they used to detect the pulses and different frequencies of the result.

  • @fvsfn

    @fvsfn

    Жыл бұрын

    The image at 8:01 showing the response for a single time slot is surprising. Based on the same Fourier intuition as you have for sound, i would have expected a sinc pattern in that case too. I am not sure if that’s a simplified image for the purpose of vulgarisation or if it is part of the original experiment.

  • @fredturk6447

    @fredturk6447

    Жыл бұрын

    @@fvsfn agree with your comment. Maybe expect a sinc()^2 function. I guess what’s happening is the electric and magnetic field of the packet of photons is getting truncated causing the broadening in frequency as expected using Fourier theory. In the case of two (or more) temporality close pulses we are seeing interference/interaction between the broadened frequency electromagnetic fields of the two pulses as a result of them also being spatially very close together. I am probably being to simplistic but that seems to make sense?

  • @danielpetka446

    @danielpetka446

    Жыл бұрын

    exactly. because then the inpput pulse must be a gaussian. But two gaussians interfering should give another gaussian, so the simplified fourier approach might not be the whole story

  • @kerbyzimmerman5662

    @kerbyzimmerman5662

    Жыл бұрын

    I think you've hit on this precisely - the on / off of the pump laser defines the frequency bands - the on/off of the pump laser behaves exactly like you expect to get if you put a square wave through Fournier analysis(which effectively the on/off of the pump laser is). So something to ponder - either this is bogus and not really showing what they propose, or maybe it gives us a deep insight into the time and space interference and see if / how it relates to frequency interference via a fournier analysis. It would be extremely cool if we could correlate the infamous double slit experiment to fournier analysis, and potentially other frequency manipulation / analysis tools such as Laplace frequency transforms.

  • @TerryBollinger
    @TerryBollinger Жыл бұрын

    This is a fascinating and well-done explanation, but my brain keeps yelling, "Aren't these just Fourier transforms stretching wave packets? And similarly, doesn't the frequency spread for the same reason that sharply banging a gong produces loads of frequencies?" Yes, there is time uncertainty, but doesn't that also stretch the wave packets in length, allowing a more mundane explanation? I loved the potential for that femtosecond cutoff; that's one of those nifty new-tech enables that could go in very unexpected directions. Very cool.

  • @bald_man01
    @bald_man0111 ай бұрын

    This is fascinating and the way you explain such a complex subject in a simple way is admiring

  • @anywallsocket
    @anywallsocket Жыл бұрын

    The ‘photon’ doesn’t go through both slits (in space or time), the ‘photon’ is the absorbed (detected) state. The wavefunction is what goes through both slits, either because it is dynamic while spacetime is fixed, or (more likely) because it is fixed while spacetime is actually dynamic.

  • @strangevideos3048

    @strangevideos3048

    4 ай бұрын

    You believe in "spacetime" ? 😅

  • @anywallsocket

    @anywallsocket

    4 ай бұрын

    @@strangevideos3048 not as a real thing per se, but as a metric to measure how mass energy density affects itself yes. how else can you explain the effectiveness of Einstein's equations in GR?

  • @ScienceDiscussed
    @ScienceDiscussed Жыл бұрын

    Great explaination of this really cool experiment. Also I like the addition of the motion graphics. Your videos are getting better and better. Great Work!

  • @DrBenMiles

    @DrBenMiles

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Right back at you 👍

  • @Keiranful

    @Keiranful

    Жыл бұрын

    It definitely is a great explanation. I'm no slouch in physics and this experiment really fascinates me, but this is the first explanation after several videos that I actually understood.

  • @JohnKerbaugh

    @JohnKerbaugh

    Жыл бұрын

    The question I have is why does the amplitude of light not count towards C? When calculating distance traveled for the amplitude is ignored. Something of the light in a longer wavelength travels further than shorter ones (or vise versa?) , no?

  • @Keiranful

    @Keiranful

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JohnKerbaugh light oscillates perpendicular to the direction of travel, so it doesn't really apply...

  • @BobBob-nr1zt

    @BobBob-nr1zt

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DrBenMiles this video's background music is not tacky and annoying enough

  • @theoreticaltherapy
    @theoreticaltherapy7 ай бұрын

    "Light travels through all possible paths at the same time" --- that is deep

  • @GetMoGaming
    @GetMoGaming6 ай бұрын

    Wow, that's a mind-bender. Btw, in the sound world we call those additional frequencies sidebands, and they are like little reflections of the carrier.

  • @axped
    @axped5 ай бұрын

    This is by far the best video I have ever seen anywhere on KZread

  • @komivalentine3067
    @komivalentine3067 Жыл бұрын

    One fact that really blows my mind is that light travels at lightspeed so technically relative to the photon no time passes between it's creation and absorbtion. It just exists and it doesn't even realize it was reflected by some femtosecond-material thingy 😂 It's so mindblowing how something can exist outside and inside of time at the same time 😊😅😂

  • @colinyesutor2600

    @colinyesutor2600

    11 ай бұрын

    This is the best explanation for the existence of God, he is light and exists outside and inside space and time.

  • @deltalima6703

    @deltalima6703

    11 ай бұрын

    God is not light.

  • @colinyesutor2600

    @colinyesutor2600

    11 ай бұрын

    @@deltalima6703 To me he is. My Bible says he is. Don't sweat it.

  • @-_James_-

    @-_James_-

    11 ай бұрын

    @@colinyesutor2600 The more we understand about the universe, the less we need to rely on made up stories about imaginary friends.

  • @TheCrewdy

    @TheCrewdy

    7 ай бұрын

    @komivalentine3067 Thank you. I think this comment has helped me understand the experiment results a bit better (perhaps) - In my head, I feel like "how can the 2nd set of photons interact with the first set of photons because some time has passed in between?" but the photons would just say "Time passed? When? We've been here all along!" @@colinyesutor2600 I think you are using two different definitions of the English word "light" rather than talking about the same thing - as in the original comment is talking about light the electromagnetic phenomenon and you are talking about light as in goodness or godliness (unless you are suggesting that you believe that God is an electromagnetic wave which would be unusual, easily disproved and it would be unclear why an electromagnetic wave would be worthy of praise). This experiment makes no comment on God's existence. TLDR: Words can have many different meanings.

  • @crazieeez
    @crazieeez Жыл бұрын

    I like the phase change causing output of an interference pattern. The pattern can be controlled by the speed of the pulse. Rad.

  • @121Pal
    @121Pal Жыл бұрын

    ...brilliant video!...incredibly difficult subject presented in a very clear, understandable way...helpful graphics too...

  • @swamiaman7708
    @swamiaman7708 Жыл бұрын

    It's amazing... please make more detailed videos on this subject ....

  • @adtoes
    @adtoes Жыл бұрын

    Clean concise explanation 👌 Thank you for your work good sir

  • @ianblack5264
    @ianblack52647 ай бұрын

    Brilliantly described. Thank you

  • @noelomaolchraoibhe3911
    @noelomaolchraoibhe391116 күн бұрын

    So the take away is that we can switch ITO incredibly frequently.....cool. And that interaction with the ITO surface modifies the probe beam.....kind of squishing it out. Got it. Super concise yet comprehensive explanation. Thanks!

  • @redhuanoon
    @redhuanoon8 ай бұрын

    Wow.. so much thankful for this.. have been looking for what's next and new and exciting.. double wow..

  • @1dog915
    @1dog915 Жыл бұрын

    WOW.. the implications of this for future computing and quantum computing is absolutely incredible...I can't wait!!

  • @_vizec
    @_vizec Жыл бұрын

    What about the reaction time of the sensor that “reads” the incoming light? Could it just be that the material the sensor is made out of is entering a harmonic with the light and “re-releasing” it at a different frequency, only to get trapped and “re-read”? Like how atoms release infrared to describe heat? Maybe this is just the “heat equivalent” of a harmonic. This could just describe the interaction between light and matter, not what light actually is (particle, wave, wave-particle). The regular double slit experiment’s harmonic function would just be based on the size and distance the slits are from each other. Either way this interaction could be very valuable if understood fully. I can imagine a “light calculator” by varying the size (or duration of pulses for this experiment) of each slit against the other and summing or running other algorithms with the results.

  • @bukanzoro284
    @bukanzoro28411 ай бұрын

    I need to watch 2 times to understand, good video thanks brother

  • @kylethompson1379
    @kylethompson1379 Жыл бұрын

    Great channel. Thanks Ben!

  • @Jwinius
    @Jwinius Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating! Well explained, too. All the information is there; I just had to watch it a few of times. Of course, it helps to understand the classic double-slit experiment, where an interference pattern still emerges if individual photons are sent through, the photons being said to interfere with themselves. In the new experiment, however, it's the stretched-out frequency range of the different pulses that interfere with each other in time. I'm not a physicist, but could it be that in the classic experiment, the individual photons are actually also interfering with each other in time, as opposed to with themselves? This even seems to make more sense of the delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment, where turning on the which-way detector "in the future" causes the interference pattern to disappear "in the past." Maybe which-way detectors prevent pairs of photons from interfering with each other in time. But, surely I'm not the first one to have thought of this.

  • @SplendidKunoichi

    @SplendidKunoichi

    Жыл бұрын

    if you think about it the probability of two photons sharing the same exact instantaneous phase should be vanishingly small, so if another photon appears to fit the same description as a pair its because to begin with all you were describing was one big photon called the EM field

  • @NiToNi2002

    @NiToNi2002

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SplendidKunoichi Lasers emit photons that are in phase. If they weren’t, they couldn’t for example be used to detect gravitational waves.

  • @danielpetka446

    @danielpetka446

    Жыл бұрын

    @@NiToNi2002 lasers emit photons randomly. That's why they are coherent. Look up bunching and anti-bunching

  • @carolinalp
    @carolinalp2 ай бұрын

    Impressive!!! Thanks for the good explanation!

  • @Joyexer
    @Joyexer Жыл бұрын

    Having light computers sounds super cool. Definitely a bright idea!

  • @jarnovanderzee2469

    @jarnovanderzee2469

    Жыл бұрын

    We got phones, there pretty light

  • @JeffOnhill

    @JeffOnhill

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Jarno van der Zee I wonder how many people will understand the weight of your comment.

  • @deltalima6703

    @deltalima6703

    11 ай бұрын

    If its asleep it has no weight.

  • @williambunting803
    @williambunting803 Жыл бұрын

    That is very interesting. I am very interested in the progress towards optical computers. I see a future where a computer is a specially grown crystal where the processing path bounces back and forth through the crystal between switching devices, and through cavities to allow for processing time variations. This will give better protection against “jamming” of computer operations. More funding to your field!

  • @woutmoerman711

    @woutmoerman711

    Жыл бұрын

    So the crystal skull was a super computer??

  • @sgtsnokeem1139

    @sgtsnokeem1139

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@woutmoerman711 grown by Nvidia

  • @websparrow

    @websparrow

    Жыл бұрын

    Haha…super expensive diamond processors…

  • @randomdosing7535
    @randomdosing7535 Жыл бұрын

    I have pondered upon exactly this idea of double slit experiment in time and using light for logic... feeling scientist now😅

  • @phaninhloi6801
    @phaninhloi6801 Жыл бұрын

    Great work!

  • @flopsie_wopsie
    @flopsie_wopsie Жыл бұрын

    Great stuff. Thank you for creating this. Subbed.

  • @jayl5075
    @jayl50756 ай бұрын

    Great video. Cheers !

  • @PBeringer
    @PBeringer Жыл бұрын

    The crossover of these concepts with acoustics is something I really love. I've often wondered whether an implementation of time-reversal to the double slit experiment is possible. Christ knows which way it would be done; maybe there isn't one.

  • @ruperterskin2117
    @ruperterskin2117 Жыл бұрын

    Cool. Thanks for sharing.

  • @Octotentaculaire
    @Octotentaculaire Жыл бұрын

    Happy to see Riccardo here, he was one of my lecturers at Imperial, very nice guy

  • @anderander5662
    @anderander5662 Жыл бұрын

    You kept my attention completely… Very clear and concise, and I understood everything you said

  • @MathIndy
    @MathIndy5 ай бұрын

    The Heisenberg uncertainty equation is usually written as (delta-x)(delta-p)>h/2*pi but you can also easily rearrange the Heisenberg equation so that, rather than position and momentum, it instead refers to energy and time. That is (delta-E)(delta-t) on the left side but remember that a photon's frequency is directly proportional to its energy (E=hf). So, in the traditional double slit experiment the delta-x is confined to one of two slits so the uncertainty in the lateral momentum must increase (two probability waves spread out and form a spacial interference pattern). From the (delta-E)(delta-t) point of view if you confine the (delta-t) to two time slits, then a similar thing must happen except now the two uncertainty "waves" are in the E=hf frequency. This creates two interfering frequencies and the associated beat pattern that is observed.

  • @mikesmith1290
    @mikesmith1290 Жыл бұрын

    This is great! I love hearing about bleeding edge experiments. Just like when the laser was 1st theorized. It took a long time, but where would we be without them?

  • @Number_Free
    @Number_Free Жыл бұрын

    When I was 14, at school, I proposed that the Double Slit experiment be conducted with electrons in vacuum apparatus of some kind. The idea behind that was to fire electrons one at a time, and compare that interference pattern (if any) with one made earlier via streams of electrons. I believe that experiment has now been conducted but using light rather than electrons, even though the latter are easier to manipulate!

  • @soundrogue4472

    @soundrogue4472

    Жыл бұрын

    I highly doubt it.

  • @Somber7
    @Somber7 Жыл бұрын

    I've got a hunch that this could lead to the number of point particle counts for a certain beam, this would allow for an equation similar to electrical amperage. Perhaps a collapse of frequency can be found, a null phase in matter reflection, aka, invisibility.

  • @ZoonCrypticon
    @ZoonCrypticon Жыл бұрын

    @8:00 What I do not understand, where does the energy for the broadening of the frequency band come from ( E= h*f )? And what happens to the laser-beam, that activates the In2O3*SnO2? Does it change its frequency ?

  • @davidhand9721
    @davidhand97219 ай бұрын

    This is all very interesting, but what really caught my ear (because I could actually understand it) was the bit about using the ITO to gate one laser signal with another. That's an AND gate if the output comes from the reflected signal, or using both outputs and one input always on, a complemented NOT gate, i.e. given signal A there is an A and a ~A output, like some kinds of flip flop. If you have AND and NOT (or just NAND for that matter) you can compose any logic gate from it. You only need electronic components for the equivalent of +5V (i.e. always on) and probably the clock signal, and you've got a full photonic computer. Am I missing something, or are photonics right around the corner?

  • @HyperFocusMarshmallow
    @HyperFocusMarshmallow Жыл бұрын

    It might have been useful to talk about Fourier transforms in this video.

  • @danielpetka446

    @danielpetka446

    Жыл бұрын

    agreed, Im surprised it wasn't even mentioned

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    @Zhavlan Жыл бұрын

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  • @PhysicsofAcala
    @PhysicsofAcala Жыл бұрын

    I wonder if you could use the color changes for encryption or use the reflection changes for a laser.

  • @Razor-pw1xn
    @Razor-pw1xn Жыл бұрын

    Clear and concise, very well explained. It's exactly what I understood from the little data from the experiment post. I did not understand, however, what the material has to do with the change in frequency of the reflected beam. As far as I know, in theory the reflected energy is conserved. If so, where did that energy go after the temporary interference?

  • @marian-gabriel9518

    @marian-gabriel9518

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, yes, the energy is conserved, however, the switching of the material, even though is extremely fast, is not instantaneous, thus creating a sort of reflecting gradient for the reflected beam to bounce off of; the "head" of the reflected beam penetrates a bit deeper into the material before it is reflected, than the "tail" of that switched length of beam. This gradient is what they referred to as "stretching like a spring would", essentially splitting that portion of the beam into multiple wavelengths/ frequencies corresponding to the different states of reflectivity up until maximum reflectivity. The energy is thus split into these resulting beams like a gradient. I'm more curious of what the relationship is between the switching beam length and the switching time of the material...how does having longer switching beams change the result....surely the switching time would be the same but just the period of maximum reflectivity would be longer...how does this affect coherence and does it matter and how much it matters?!?!

  • @Razor-pw1xn

    @Razor-pw1xn

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marian-gabriel9518 If I have understood your comment correctly, the frequency change would occur because in those 10 ft of transition of the material between transparent and reflective, part of the infrared laser beam is reflected at different depths of the material. This would produce diffraction and consequently a change in frequency or energy. However, that energy loss would be almost negligible in that case. Also, how would you explain that that only happens when there are 2 reflected pulses? When only one is reflected, that is, a single slit, no change in frequency is appreciated. And as you say, why is this decay in the spectrum related to the separation in time of the slits? On the other hand, would this experiment be possible with a single photon setup? In that way, it would not be possible to attribute in any way the result of the experiment to the interaction with the material. They do not want to rush to their conclusions but I think it is a more important discovery than it seems. My opinion is that the time interference consumes a bit of energy, but I don't know where it goes. At the moment they only speak of "new domain" and technological potential, but they do not say anything about what this would imply in the study of particles and time within MC.

  • @marian-gabriel9518

    @marian-gabriel9518

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Razor-pw1xn Well, exactly right. I think the key to this is how do they get the two beams to sync. They mentioned "photon acceleration". Which my guess is the manipulation of the beams, in time, via the diffraction and that gradient, in one way in the reflective material, and then back, in the "sensor" prism, essentially making them "wait" for one another. And I'm guessing this properties of the reflective material and prism directly affect the time slits intervals and durations they can successfully use. But as you say...this has very interesting implications and would very much like to see more of this.

  • @andrewmark3515
    @andrewmark3515 Жыл бұрын

    I have been asking channels to convey the below experiment. I hope you convey to them. Since presence of electron detector causes it to behave like wave or particle. Try this What if we put two rows of double slits row 2 after row 1. Row 2 double slit are made in a way that it matches the peak wave interference pattern on screen if there was only one double slit. So in this experiment the screen becomes double slit row 2. With all permutations and combinations. First experiment having no electron detector in row 1 and row 2, second experiment with only row 1 having electron detector, third experiment with only row 2 having electron detector finally last experiment with row 1 and row 2 having electron detector. Just a thought, have we tried this??

  • @iainmackenzieUK
    @iainmackenzieUK Жыл бұрын

    Question - is this related to Fourier analysis and the Heisenberg uncertainty principal ? The way the spectrum of frequencies is broadened as the time between pulses gets smaller? If so, would this be another way to explain/ understand the process? Thank you

  • @DarkSkay
    @DarkSkay Жыл бұрын

    Would the behaviour be similar or related for e.g. a (very) quickly rotating disc with slits arranged and timely interacting in certain configurations?

  • @Razor-pw1xn

    @Razor-pw1xn

    11 ай бұрын

    This experiment would be interesting when checking the result with a single photon, which I think is not possible today in the experiment in the video. Also because it would be possible to put sensors in the slits or reflectors of the disc, being able to check the validity of the "which way" information hypothesis. In any case, how will you check that the rotation speed of the disk is almost absolutely constant?

  • @aaronsmith6632
    @aaronsmith6632 Жыл бұрын

    What I'd like to know is if the pulse laser just shot a single photon at a time, would you still see the quantum probabilistic interference pattern? Like in the classical two slit experiment. Of course, I'm guessing you would.

  • @Littleprinceleon

    @Littleprinceleon

    Жыл бұрын

    Is the maximum amount of energy transferrable by a single photon enough to change the reflectivity of this indium-tin-oxide material?

  • @andrewferguson6901

    @andrewferguson6901

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Littleprinceleonsomebody got the laser names wrong, either you or op. I think op means can the signal laser fire only one photon and the control laser can do whatever it does

  • @Razor-pw1xn

    @Razor-pw1xn

    11 ай бұрын

    I think that is not possible today. Imagine how difficult it must be to produce a single photon right in the time window in which the slit "opens". Or in other words, synchronize the production of the single photon with the pulse of the other laser.

  • @stephenmaddox5230
    @stephenmaddox523011 ай бұрын

    If you have slits in a card, it is like a doorway which has thickness. This means that photons could ricochet off the sides of the slits and produce the patterns.

  • @RandomGeometryDashStuff
    @RandomGeometryDashStuff Жыл бұрын

    06:24 what if you point pump laser at detector? how would that be different than reflected probe laser's light?

  • @NeutronStar9
    @NeutronStar9 Жыл бұрын

    Firstly, a very well put video. I am still thinking this is a better version of double slit in space and not time. Just because the timing of slits is considered the interference is still happening in space.

  • @aptreadwell
    @aptreadwell2 ай бұрын

    At the end of your vid "the future changes the past" comment....I think I caught Sir Roger Penrose sayings something similar a few months back. It certainly sparked a lot of thought about it from myself.

  • @johnsouza4391
    @johnsouza4391 Жыл бұрын

    What are the bandwidths of each band? How much did they change when the "slits" changed? What was the frequency of the lasers? More info plz?

  • @JosephofWalton
    @JosephofWalton Жыл бұрын

    I work in the entertainment lighting industry. In the last 10 years the shift to using LED lighting has changed the industry. LED's tend to use high frequency pulses to simulate dimming. We often manipulate the frequency at which those pulses happen for different effects or to help us work with cameras shutter speeds. When we change the frequency at which pulse happen there is often a color shift that happens. I wonder if this is why.

  • @viralsheddingzombie5324
    @viralsheddingzombie5324 Жыл бұрын

    Rather than pulse the reflective surface to externally decompose the frequency spectrum of the laser, why not just vary (sweep) the frequency of the laser directly? Would it produce the same result? Changing the frequency of the laser is the same as changing the time element.

  • @NebMunb
    @NebMunb Жыл бұрын

    Ahh the double slit experiment. What a throwback!

  • @danielpetka446
    @danielpetka446 Жыл бұрын

    10:18 shouldn't the single pulse beam be a sinc then just like in the spatial case?

  • @HADDEN67
    @HADDEN67 Жыл бұрын

    Very very interesting.

  • @Jwinius
    @Jwinius Жыл бұрын

    By the way, how does that detector work? It sounds like it's just a prism, but is it more than that?

  • @LiborTinka
    @LiborTinka Жыл бұрын

    6:24 wait a minute - isn't laser just a single frequency of light? the splitting into different wavelengths doesn't make sense to me (as there is only one - single colour).... or is the laser some kind of composite of different wavelengths from start? I know from school that travelling wave can change inensity and phase but never the frequency. Even if frequency somehow changed (the "spring effect") then it would be still just one frequency, only shifted, wouldn't it? Where all the colours come from? Or is it composite of multiple beams over time?

  • @joejurneke9576
    @joejurneke9576 Жыл бұрын

    It looks a lot like typical nonlinear multiplication similar to mixing effects. You get a carrier, and the Sum and difference frequencies generated.

  • @jasonhaymanonthedrawingboard
    @jasonhaymanonthedrawingboard Жыл бұрын

    Nice! Does this mean you could play back history? See events as they were? I have thought it possible? Considering some of the quirks of quantum super positions? It might just have proven some aspects of quantum theory right? But broad frequency changes might also imply something far more interesting? that being overunity? Which could have a hole host of implications?

  • @khatharrmalkavian3306
    @khatharrmalkavian3306 Жыл бұрын

    Pausing before watching to point out yet another fabulously appropriate facial expression in thumbnail.

  • @JimC
    @JimC Жыл бұрын

    Do picosecond laser pulses also exhibit some inherent frequency spread due only to their short length?

  • @philipashmore
    @philipashmore Жыл бұрын

    I'm surprised that the Heisenberg uncertainty principle wasn't mentioned. The smaller and more precise the time interval the broader and more uncertain the frequency becomes.

  • @danielpetka446

    @danielpetka446

    Жыл бұрын

    or more generally, the Fourier Transform

  • @DavidRTribble

    @DavidRTribble

    Жыл бұрын

    Because The HUP is only really noticeable near the Planck scale, which is around 1e-43 (10^-43) seconds. The experiment deals with times at the 1e-12 (10^-12) second level (picoseconds), which is 31 orders of magnitude larger.

  • @xband
    @xband8 ай бұрын

    Could this be mixing in their detector system? Is the detector fast enough to resolve this gap? This was my first time through the video. Wrapping my head around it.

  • @warsin8641
    @warsin8641 Жыл бұрын

    The classical outro music I love it!

  • @The18107j

    @The18107j

    Жыл бұрын

    TheFatRat - Xenogenesis

  • @TheFREDAMAN
    @TheFREDAMAN9 ай бұрын

    Ok so when I saw the title and before watching the video, I thought the experiment was going to discuss the standard double slit method, but "delay" each pulse by varying the time between them. In other words, would there be any change in the interference pattern if you waited a day between pulses. Now I know that firing one photon at a time can be achieved now. This sort of delay(hour, day, week etc) between each pulse or single photon will take ages to build up a visible effect. So here's my question. Is the standard double slit interference pattern affected by time in the manner I described?

  • @pallmall7385
    @pallmall738511 ай бұрын

    Does the lazer light that changes give off frequencies in ALL light frequencies? Does it go to gamma and infrared?

  • @ekrrethon1445
    @ekrrethon1445 Жыл бұрын

    Also time is emergent from events. How do you factor this into the experiment?

  • @ekrrethon1445

    @ekrrethon1445

    Жыл бұрын

    Really does seems like a waste of money. There are problems in the world this could be used for.

  • @cyrilio

    @cyrilio

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ekrrethon1445 research in to fundamental physics is never a waste of money. These are the unknown-unknowns.

  • @ekrrethon1445

    @ekrrethon1445

    Жыл бұрын

    @cyrilio it's a waste because there are world conflicts happening now that could use this amount of attention and effort in order to improve those situations. The world is falling apart but No scientists are worried about the freekin double slit experiment being performed in a new dimension! .. They're fooling you people.

  • @ekrrethon1445

    @ekrrethon1445

    Жыл бұрын

    @cyrilio it's a waste of morality.

  • @Jar.in.a.Bottle

    @Jar.in.a.Bottle

    Жыл бұрын

    The way I look at this type of discovery is for me to accept that time itself oscillates, but with some kind of overall forward momentum by our perspective. I think this could be what is happening with Time-Crystal oscillations. If true, then this would mean that time iterates back through itself at least once, if not more than once. Of course, this would mean that time's first-pass physics might be different than time's iterated physics, thus interference patterns should expectedly emerge in some probabilistic manner depending on the number of iterations and other such (random-ish) neighboring iteration contributions.

  • @lukemurray-smith5454
    @lukemurray-smith5454 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I'm still getting my head around this time interference. So far I think i've come to understand more about how wavelengths might be constructed as standing waves carried within wave functions of past and future photons wave cancelling themselves at regular spatial/temporal intervals but after that it gets very discombobulating and makes about as much sense a submerging a photon in a singularity, so information like this is amazing.

  • @DeclanMBrennan
    @DeclanMBrennan Жыл бұрын

    I just came across your channel but I found this absolutely fascinating. From my limited understanding of standard QM there is a position operator but usually no time operator. Will this experiment start theorists thinking about ways of treating time in a similar way to position? (Before writing this comment, I just came across a short (3 page) paper on time operators by Negasa Belay but I don't have the background to evaluate it).

  • @anywallsocket

    @anywallsocket

    Жыл бұрын

    A very good point. Standard QM has been face-to-face with its Newtonian treatment of time since the beginning. And while QFT seems to fix this asymmetry, it does so by abandoning our standard QM theories of measurement. There's hefty discussion on stack exchange about this.

  • @eraninmpls
    @eraninmpls Жыл бұрын

    I have a question unrelated to this video, but I wanted to ask it on your most recent post to increase the chance you'd see it. I get that there's lots of thought about entangled particles and whether they are locally real (I'm paraphrasing), and how measuring one of them (say, looking for vertical spin) will affect the other (if mine is spin-up, yours will register spin down). My question is, what happens if I measure mine for vertical spin (up or down) and you measure yours for horizontal spin (right-left). Is there a correlation there?

  • @SplendidKunoichi

    @SplendidKunoichi

    Жыл бұрын

    yes (i think), what correlates is the measurement itself. what if you tell me to measure horizontal spin and we agree, but i dont know my left from my right, let alone what spin is? unless i forget to show up/plug in the device and measure anything at all, its gonna get done by some device that measures spin

  • @Littleprinceleon

    @Littleprinceleon

    Жыл бұрын

    One measurement affects the outcome of the other, no matter which axis they choose. If they decide to measure at a perpendicular axis that's not much helpful, because the result is fifty-fifty in that case. However, when the entangled partner is detected at an 45° angle they get a distribution cca 85:15% (sinusoid distribution) while "macroscopically" at this angle the maximum possibility of the spin pointing in the direction of the same hemisphere is 75% (linear distribution). That's the whole point of why scientist talk about the violation of Bell's inequality: such a strong correlation between measurements wouldn't be able with spins as hidden variables... ...meaning that in "our" 3D classical physics the effect of one measurement can be explained only by some "spooky" action at a DISTANCE, thus giving up the principle of locality.

  • @johnsmith1953x
    @johnsmith1953x Жыл бұрын

    *About 20 years ago, there was an experiment of this double slit experiment* using SINGLE photons. This EU group shot a single photon a second and after a week, they got the same interference pattern as if they shot countless photons per second. The theory was that the photons was either (1) interacting with photons from another dimension (2) interacting with photons from foward/backward in time.

  • @organicdoorbell5881

    @organicdoorbell5881

    Жыл бұрын

    Or 'sideways' in 'time.' My theory is there are multiple time vectors, but physics has written the math as if there's only one. D = Delta T meaning there's as many time axes as space dimensions.

  • @johnsmith1953x

    @johnsmith1953x

    Жыл бұрын

    @@organicdoorbell5881 I've heard about that a decade ago and I'm still confused on the physical meaning of "extra" time dimensions.

  • @user-jh5dq9vc1v

    @user-jh5dq9vc1v

    11 ай бұрын

    Keep it simple. It interfere with itself.

  • @organicdoorbell5881

    @organicdoorbell5881

    11 ай бұрын

    @@johnsmith1953x I did a little math around it in my book (unreleased so far) that indicates we are only 'partially sampling' time. It's different but analogous to Many Worlds interpretation of quantum physics. Regardless of how many vectors, it seems we evolved to only perceive one 't'.

  • @johnsmith1953x

    @johnsmith1953x

    11 ай бұрын

    @@organicdoorbell5881 Then is it possible to go back in time that is a different "sideways" or parallel time rather than the current time?

  • @CloudhoundCoUk
    @CloudhoundCoUk Жыл бұрын

    The potential is very exciting.

  • @david180s
    @david180s Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting

  • @davegadge1
    @davegadge111 ай бұрын

    The double slit freaks me out! Can you in how this links to retro causality? Please!

  • @petrosros
    @petrosros Жыл бұрын

    The time taken for the Kerr reaction, as the double slit an actual physical location? If so; how long does it take for the Kerr process to occur, vis the strike point, of the probe laser. As double slit implies different locations, with the speed of the Kerr effect being so fast the two positions must occur at different times? Anyway good vid I enjoyed especially the time measurements.

  • @Pyxis10

    @Pyxis10

    8 ай бұрын

    It said 10 femtoseconds in the video.

  • @lalitsharma3137
    @lalitsharma3137 Жыл бұрын

    Photon entanglement is being utilized for Quantum Computer at room temps. This material can be used to develop Quantum Computing Photon based chips for a new generation of processors.

  • @sirnukesalot24
    @sirnukesalot24 Жыл бұрын

    Has the thickness of the coated plate been varied within the scope of the experiment yet?

  • @yudoball

    @yudoball

    Жыл бұрын

    Good question

  • @JohnKerbaugh

    @JohnKerbaugh

    Жыл бұрын

    Or has the strength of the interference light been varied? It would seem to me that interference would be analog not digital regardless of the pulse. The material would have some period to become reflective and return to transparent. In the interim some variance in the penetration and reflection would be expected.

  • @sirnukesalot24

    @sirnukesalot24

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JohnKerbaugh If you were to look up terms like "Signal Mixing" or "Superheterodyne" from radio technology, you'll see what I was thinking of when I asked the question. I'd also want to see what happens when you vary the angle of the glass, just to make sure.

  • @JohnKerbaugh

    @JohnKerbaugh

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sirnukesalot24 Another thought came to me, if it is in fact time traversal, does the math add up to account for stellar distance traveled?

  • @sirnukesalot24

    @sirnukesalot24

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JohnKerbaugh That's not really what this experimental setup is doing. You have a [reflection] / [not reflection] that's oscillating at a specific frequency, the intention of which is to develop an interference pattern based on time lag rather than just a spatial relationship. However, I can't shake the idea that, during the [not reflection] phase of the oscillation, there's a feature of refraction that's creeping into the experimental results. There's no reason I can think of in which anything remotely similar is happening on an astronomical scale. I think I know what you're thinking, but the relationship under study in this experiment isn't going to refine our understanding of redshift factors.

  • @thomasdavies2555
    @thomasdavies2555 Жыл бұрын

    So if they had a constant beam switching the material to be reflective there should only be one peak?

  • @sooraj_rk
    @sooraj_rk Жыл бұрын

    What will be the equivalent of quantum delayed choice experiment in time domain ? That will make light to behave as particle not wave.

  • @lmiones
    @lmiones Жыл бұрын

    Interesting! In my opinion, in a double slit experiment both correlated photons are in initially in quantum phase sync, and off-set at the detector, causing interference; but they could start offset (time separated, but laser source keeps them quantum phase correlated) and interfere when absorbed at the detector, again with interference ... our Lab time emerges from local quantum phase periodic time (atomic clocks! and Einstein sync procedure!?) ... definitely interesting things to ponder upon and analyze :)

  • @DD-oq5nn

    @DD-oq5nn

    Жыл бұрын

    How would this explain the observation effect seen when the experiment is observed. If photons are offset at the detector as you suggest then what changes at the point of observation to cause the wave function collapse?

  • @infernalsorcery7923

    @infernalsorcery7923

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@DD-oq5nn heisenburg's uncertainty principle, when you observe a quantum phenomenon you are measuring it, thus forcing it to collapse into a certainty

  • @Jar.in.a.Bottle
    @Jar.in.a.Bottle Жыл бұрын

    The way I look at this type of discovery is for me to accept that time itself oscillates, but with some kind of overall forward momentum by our perspective. I think this could be what is happening with Time-Crystal oscillations. If true, then this would mean that time iterates back through itself at least once, if not more than once. Of course, this could mean that time's first-pass physics might be different than time's iterated physics, thus interference patterns should expectedly emerge in some probabilistic manner depending on the number of iterations and other such (random-ish) neighboring iteration contributions. Thanks for the great explanation of this experiment and results. []:-)

  • @Littleprinceleon

    @Littleprinceleon

    Жыл бұрын

    Could you please provide a/some good introductory video(s) on time-crystals?

  • @Jar.in.a.Bottle

    @Jar.in.a.Bottle

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Littleprinceleon If I remember correctly, this channel covers Frank Wilczek's predictions of Time Crystals' likely existence, and as later discovered by science teams. Otherwise, I have no favorite video suggestions, though there are many. Just search "Frank Wilczek and Time Crystals" and you'll likely find a factually scientific explanation. Basically, some of the same ones I've watched. Sorry I can't offer you more than this for the time being. Have fun with it, It's a fascinating subject.

  • @cyrilio
    @cyrilio Жыл бұрын

    Do we know what happens if we pass light through or reflect light on time crystals? What should we expect?

  • @maximalideal1525
    @maximalideal1525 Жыл бұрын

    Can you explain what the detector is like? You said it splits the frequencies on the light pulses much like a refractive prism would. Can you (or anyone else) provide me with more details about it? I'd be very much interested in learning more.

  • @satishkrishnan2928

    @satishkrishnan2928

    Жыл бұрын

    i'm assuming its just a spectroscope

  • @voidwyrm6149

    @voidwyrm6149

    Жыл бұрын

    they probably used a spectroscope, which typically uses a diffraction grating to split light into a spectrum. i don't entirely understand how it works but the effect looks similar to a prism

  • @Mentallect
    @Mentallect Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting.

  • @kevinmartin3682
    @kevinmartin3682 Жыл бұрын

    Yes yes please more of this content. Capture the light with the trillion fps camera.

  • @joda7697
    @joda769711 ай бұрын

    Can you give a link to the paper itself?

  • @rubix71
    @rubix71 Жыл бұрын

    Is this not still an experiment with light? Or can someone explain a little better how light can be a stand in for time? thanks!

  • @xymaryai8283
    @xymaryai82835 ай бұрын

    this was a perfect way to explain this experiment in a way i understand, but coming from Astrum's video about it, how the heck does future light go slower to interfere with the future slit, and back in time to interfere with the past slit? how does this, once again, not break causality? Light seems to love _almost_ breaking causality, just because it can reach its speed in a vacuum

  • @donholmstrom6482
    @donholmstrom64828 ай бұрын

    This is quantum stuff so it deals with the extremely small. we know that light photons are really small wave packets given the speed at which the switching is happening (< 10 fs) is it possible that some of this might be related to changing to reflecting as the wave packet is passing through the material. Passing part of the packet and reflecting part of the packet?

  • @zimsuk
    @zimsuk Жыл бұрын

    At the start of the video i was expecting to have to watch it a few times to understand it, but you brilliantly explained it so i understod it the first time 👍🏻👏🏻💪🏻

  • @paulweiler8967
    @paulweiler8967 Жыл бұрын

    A trillion times faster than the blink of an eye WHAT

  • @HuygensOptics
    @HuygensOptics Жыл бұрын

    I'm not even sure what it means, interference in the frequency domain. Or how that could come about from 2 pulses that do not overlap in time. If you want to study these phenomena, you need some kind of grating to separate the different frequencies, which introduces path length differences. In 2.3 ps, light only travels 0.7mm, so part of these pulses might actually overlap temporally at the detector if you don't take extreme care to avoid this.

  • @ekrrethon1445

    @ekrrethon1445

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. It should be passing through the slits simultaneously.

  • @_vizec

    @_vizec

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ekrrethon1445 But wouldn’t that be the equivalent of merging the two slits into one for the original double slit experiment? The purpose of this experiment is to vary the time domain, not the physical

  • @ekrrethon1445

    @ekrrethon1445

    Жыл бұрын

    @@_vizec I see. So the intention IS to separate instances. Soooo then whats the purpose of this?

  • @_vizec

    @_vizec

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ekrrethon1445 well, as in the video the light pulses are the “slit equivalent” in the classic experiment. Since it is much more difficult to vary the physical properties of the original experiment (size of the hole, and distance between them), if this experiment has a correlation to the original double silt experiment then we could vary these parameters instantaneously. This means that if we ever find an algorithm to use to get meaningful results from the variation of these parameters, we could literally make a computer that runs on light.

  • @ekrrethon1445

    @ekrrethon1445

    Жыл бұрын

    @Vizec I watched the video. I'll rephrase, what is the purpose of putting effort into this when there are more important things happening in the world. This is pretty pointless when in comparison. Why do we need a computer that runs on light. .. we don't need the matrix.

  • @IWasAlwaysNeverAnywhere
    @IWasAlwaysNeverAnywhere Жыл бұрын

    What happens when the operation of the lasers is reversed? The pump laser stays on making the surface remain reflective and then use the same time intervals to shoot photons out of the probe laser rather than the pump laser? So instead of ALLOWING the photons to be reflected at certain times it would be ONLY a pair of photons that could be reflected to begin with. If i could phrase it another way. Instead of putting your finger on a running foscet to scatter the water what happens when your finger is already there and just 2 single droplets were released? Would the light behave the same way? If not to me it would suggest that light can move or influence other light o-o.

  • @nilamonidaloi3713
    @nilamonidaloi3713 Жыл бұрын

    How can two pulses which are seperated in time or in other words delayed in time, interfere at the same point in space. Or is it that, interference in time doesn't require light to physically overlap at some point in space. Also how is this different from simply taking the Fourier transformation of a light pulse train.

  • @tomcraver9659
    @tomcraver9659 Жыл бұрын

    Are they sure the light reflected from the surface of the material, rather than some passing through and reflecting off the back, since a 1mm thickness of material would take only a few picoseconds to pass into and out of, potentially allowing self-interference? If one did a traditional double-slit experiment in combination with 2 one-picosecond flashes of light, where each physical slit opens in sequence for just a picosecond perfectly timed to allow one of the two flashes to pass through (which seems similar to activating the mirror twice) would one have gotten interference or not? If the interference happened before the physical slits, it'd seem to be yes - where if the interference happened after the physical slits, it'd seem to be no.

  • @unknotmiguel
    @unknotmiguel11 ай бұрын

    What if a wall is build in the middle .. but a small wall, so that the larger one could still interfere.. would it change anything... Or.. what it a slit has a polarizer lens different from the other slit.. will that change the outcome?

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