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Lecture · Royal Institution
The Royal Institution · Jim Al-Khalili · 2025
A Friday Evening Discourse recorded at the Ri in November 2025, a century after Heisenberg's breakthrough: a hundred years of quantum theory, from the 1920s pioneers to the technologies being built now. Keep asking which claims are experiment and which are interpretation.
Lecture · Royal Institution
The Royal Institution · Neil Johnson
A clip from Neil Johnson's 1999 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures that explains wave–particle duality with double-slit demonstrations. Use it as a warm-up for Feynman's three runs: for each demonstration, ask whether the result is lumps that add, like bullets, or bands that interfere, like water waves.
Lecture · Institute for Quantum Computing
Institute for Quantum Computing · Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect, a co-author of the 2007 single-photon version of Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment in this section, in IQC's Quantum Frontiers Distinguished Lecture Series, on experiments with a true single-photon source that bring out the strangeness of wave–particle duality. You hear the story from one of the people who did the experiments.
Lecture · MIT
MIT OpenCourseWare · Robert Field · 2017
Professor Robert Field's lecture from MIT's 5.61 Physical Chemistry (Fall 2017) works through the two-slit experiment, the evidence that light and matter behave as both waves and particles, and the uncertainty principle. University-level and unhurried, with the two-slit discussion starting about six minutes in: watch it after Part 4, and treat its uncertainty-principle discussion as a preview of chapter 8.
Explainer · YouTube
Sabine Hossenfelder
Sabine Hossenfelder takes apart the claim that the delayed-choice quantum eraser rewrites the past, building up from the double slit and entanglement. Watch it after Part 7: her account of why fringes appear only in sorted subsets of the data is exactly the lesson's.
Demo · Brown University
Brown Physics Demos
Brown University's physics demonstrations show Young's double slit first with light waves, then with single photons: the light version of this section's one-at-a-time test. Look for the section's two conclusions: each photon registers as one localised detection, yet the detections together obey the two-slit pattern.
Demo · YouTube
Physics Demos · Boyd F. Edwards
A Utah State University demonstration: two double slits that share a 0.04 mm slit width but have separations of 0.25 mm and 0.5 mm, and the wider separation gives the more closely spaced fringes. Doubling d should halve the fringe spacing Δy ≈ λL/d, while the broad single-slit envelope, set by the unchanged width, should stay put.
Explainer · YouTube
Khan Academy India - English · Mahesh Shenoy
Khan Academy adds two coherent waves as rotating arrows (phasors) and derives I = 4I₀cos²(φ/2), this section's interference term worked out for light. Read intensity as probability and the two waves as ψ₁ and ψ₂, and you get the lesson's result for equal slits: four times one slit's value where the arrows align, zero where they oppose.
Explainer · YouTube
Looking Glass Universe
Mithuna Yoganathan takes apart the popular telling in which watched electrons turn into little bullets that pile up in two lumps. With which-path detectors, she argues, each electron goes through the slit where it was seen, but the dots still follow a wave-shaped single-slit pattern, which is what this section's P₁ and P₂ really look like.
Explainer · YouTube
Sabine Hossenfelder
The 2025 MIT experiment from this section's callout, set against Einstein's 1927 double-slit challenge that the section's springs story describes. Hossenfelder asks whether the MIT group really proved Einstein wrong, as they claim: weigh her verdict against the callout's 'Bohr wins again'.