Using readily available equipment, you can carry out a home experiment that illustrates one of the weirdest effects in quantum mechanics. Thanks Jher! – Link.
8 thoughts on “DIY Quantum eraser”
drysdamsays:
Wrong link posted. This is the story, not the sidebar that tells how to do it.
Kahomonosays:
You linked to the print version of the article, which excludes the sidebar with the HOWTO…
an even easier experiment at home is to take two polarizers, perpendicular and all light is blocked. add a third polarizer at 45 degrees in between the two and viola, you can see thru it.
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Wrong link posted. This is the story, not the sidebar that tells how to do it.
You linked to the print version of the article, which excludes the sidebar with the HOWTO…
Link to the slideshow showing the experiment:
http://www.sciam.com/slideshow.cfm?articleID=DD39218F-E7F2-99DF-39D45DA3DD2602A1
an even easier experiment at home is to take two polarizers, perpendicular and all light is blocked. add a third polarizer at 45 degrees in between the two and viola, you can see thru it.