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- I occasionally read descriptions of the double slit experiment in which the author says something like, "If a detector is place at each slit so that we know which slit the photon passsed through, the interefence patten does not form." Is this even possible? Is it possible to detect a passing photon and have it remain a photon? An electron, yes, but a photon?
I cannot see how a photon can be detected and yet remain the same photon. I am thinking that the description "If a detector is place at each slit so that we know which slit the photon passsed through, the interefence patten does not form" is sloppy and in error.