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Young’s early nineteenth-century interference experiment showed that light intensities form fringes when coherent paths overlap, providing strong evidence for a wave description of light.
This historical optical experiment is distinct from later single-particle double-slit experiments in quantum mechanics.
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Young’s fringes helped establish wave optics, later incorporated into the electromagnetic-wave theory of light.
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