11/08/2025
Physicists at MIT have conducted a precise version of the double-slit experiment, a cornerstone of quantum mechanics, challenging Albert Einstein's objections to the theory.
The experiment, using ultracold atoms and single photons, aimed to definitively address the wave-particle duality, showing that particles either exhibit wave-like or particle-like behavior, but not both simultaneously, supporting Niels Bohr's complementarity principle.
This research contradicts Einstein's belief in a deterministic reality where particles possess definite properties regardless of observation, and supports Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation, which posits that physical reality is defined by measurement.
The findings, published in Physical Review Letters, validate quantum theory over Einstein's classical view and provide the cleanest test yet of this fundamental quantum phenomenon.
