A neat twist on the classic 2 slit interferance experiment.

[Salviati]

Physicists in Europe and the US have performed a novel version of the double-slit quantum-interference experiment with single electrons. In the classic version of the experiment, electrons pass through a mask containing two parallel slits and produce a pattern of bright and dark interference fringes on a screen. Now, Gerhard Paulus of Texas A&M University and co-workers in Berlin, Munich, Sarajevo and Vienna have observed an interference pattern with electrons that pass through a double slit in time, not space, as a result of being ejected from an atom at one of two possible times by a laser pulse.

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http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/3/1/1?rss=2.0

Pretty neat what you can do with femtosecond laser pulses...

[globalvillage]

1. I was wondering when they'd get around to that.

I prefer the traditional version myself.
;)

[Q3JR4]

2. Too bad they didn't

attempt this before I started taking Quantum Physics huh?

[RobertSeattle]

3. Hey - Just curious

The only internet discussions I belong to are mostly political - do physicist (or the other science fields) have an equivalent of "Physicist Underground" so they can argue and hammer out ideas? (Also with the convenience of anonymity)?

[Speck Tater]

4. Yes, but I'm not allowed to tell you how to find it. :)

Seriously, the forums here have that flavor to them: http://www.physlink.com/

[Salviati]

5. I would imagine somewhere...

I'm not sure where though, but I also imagine that it would be 3/4 full of cranks. Physics seems to attract them like no other field. People who make it their life's goal to show how Einstein was wrong about relativity, to show that the uncertainty principle is untenable, they're equally as bad as creationists in their zeal, if not worse.

[RobertSeattle]

6. I'm currently reading the "Big Bang" book

It's quite well written - a great history of how we perceived the universe from the Greeks all the way to now.