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In a blind double slit experiment, particles go through two slits, which show up on a backboard in a wave form. However, the wave form is not physical, It's a probability distribution. Can anyone explain what a "probability distribution" in this case is, and what happened to the initial particles?

by /u/CarefreeCastle in /r/askscience

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