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Is anyone aware of a double, double-slit experiment?

Where for example we can see that light and matter display characteristics of both classically defined waves and then classicly defined particles on the second double slit once it is observed from the same source?

So, something like this:

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I am curious if the same light source could act as both a wave and a particle, for example, if the third screen displayed particle results after the second double slit once it had been observed. The screens are tagged with the potential results from a typical double-slit experiment.

Josh
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Multiple diffraction is common in high resolution spectrometers. The waves act like waves all the way through until they reach the detector. It is the detector that performs the "observation": that's where the irreversible dissipative process occurs.

John Doty
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