In the basic version of the experiment, a coherent light source such as a laser beam illuminates a thin plate pierced by two parallel slits, and the light passing through the slits is observed on a screen behind the plate.

The key experiment behind this announcement happened in 1910 at the University of Manchester, as Ernest Rutherford's team performed a remarkable experiment in which Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden under his supervision fired alpha particles ( helium nuclei ) at a thin film of gold foil.

Rawls used a thought experiment, the original position, in which representative parties choose principles of justice for the basic structure of society from behind a veil of ignorance.

The experiment consists of people standing in the foreground with nothing but black behind them.

For example, research from a field experiment found that male and female shoppers who were accidentally touched from behind by other shoppers left a store earlier than people who had not been touched and evaluated brands more negatively, resulting in the Accidental Interpersonal Touch effect.

A worker in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility ( PHSF ) stands behind the bottom side of the experiment platform for the Huygens probe.

Attempts at synchronizing sound were soon left behind, while Dickson would also experiment with disc-based exhibition designs.

The best known was inspired by a scene in the movie Casino Royale and featured both a Ford Mondeo and a Citroën 2CV parked behind the engines of a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400, in an experiment to investigate whether the thrust from the aircraft's four jet engines really could lift a car off the ground.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

Also in the 1991 study the researchers used an experiment involving two differently sized carrots ( one tall and one short ) in order to test the infants response when the carrots would be moved behind a short wall.

The WSF was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of using this free-flying experiment to grow semiconductors, high temperature superconductors and other materials using the ultra-high vacuum created behind the spacecraft near the experiment package.

This building, located behind the Humanities and Social Sciences complex, now houses mostly teachers and graduate students, in addition to the Soviet Apartment, a communal living experiment occupied by students of the Russian language course.

), were behind the experiment, while their superiors claimed that it was an unknown chemical weapon.

In an experiment, 7 of the 8 pigs tested were able to find a bowl of food hidden behind a wall using a mirror.

Confronted by the aliens behind these bizarre experiments, the Vok, Primal learned that they planned to use an orbital laser weapon — the planetbuster, disguised as a second moon — to detonate the planet's energon and wipe their " experiment " clean.

The 1886 World's Championship Series had witnessed a two-game experiment in which each team selected an umpire – both positioned behind the catcher – with a third official, called a referee, positioned behind the pitcher and able to move about the bases.

While sitting in San Francisco's Caffe Trieste, coffee industry veteran ( and friend of Torani ) " Brandy " Brandenburger saw Torani behind the counter and brought a bottle home to experiment with espresso and steamed milk.

When the agency behind the experiment tried to capture him, he fights back, discovering that he has gained the ability to generate, manipulate, and control electromagnetism.

Abe stays behind to continue his plan of attempting to prevent the original Abe and Aaron from this timeline — who have no idea of what the others have done — from ever using the machines for time travel, suggesting that he would tamper with the machines in the hope that their doubles would think the experiment a failure and move on to other projects.

The idea behind this experiment was that if a virus causes KS, the genomic DNA in the two samples should be precisely identical except for DNA belonging to the virus.

Karl, the sporty, troublesome teen and the youngest of the vampires who yearns to return to his life as a human ; meek Merrill who is smart and wants to do well, and dreams of making Drew her soulmate ; popular and beautiful Essie, a royal by birth, hides her emotions behind a vain and fashionable exterior ; bad boy Marty who only joined the experiment for the endless supply of free blood ; and Drew, dark and mysterious, he falls in love with mortal Sherry.

There are seats for each of the 79 councillors, situated in a Hemicycle, all facing the Lord Provost ( the Scottish equivalent of the lord mayor found in London and other cities ), his Depute, and the Chief Executive, who are seated behind the mace.

It is narrated in the < U > memoirs of the apostles </ U > that as soon as Jesus came up out of the river Jordan and a voice said to him: ' You are My Son, this day I have begotten you ', this Devil came and tempted him, even so far as to exclaim: ' Worship me '; but Christ replied: ' Get behind me, Satanas, the Lord your God shall you worship, and Him only shall you serve '.

The image of turning away from the Lord, who is the rightful leader, and following behind false gods is the dominant image for apostasy in the OT.

In Ireland, Lord Carteret used his power to secretly aid in the controversy over Wood's Halfpence and support Drapier's Letters behind the scenes and cause harm to Walpole's power.

Though no longer a member of the Cabinet, Lord Orford continued to maintain personal influence with George II and was often dubbed the " Minister behind the Curtain " for this advice and influence.

The discussion is once again interrupted by Mr. Chater, who once again challenges Septimus to a duel, having finally realised, learning off-stage from Lord Byron, that Septimus was behind the negative reviews of his work.

Using the Force, Qui-Gon manages to leap onto the ship's extended landing ramp as it takes off, leaving the Sith Lord behind.

In 1961, GEC merged with Sir Michael Sobell's Radio & Allied Industries Ltd, and with it emerged the new power behind GEC, Sobell's son-in-law Arnold Weinstock ( later Lord Weinstock ), who became Managing Director in 1963, moving the headquarters of the electrical giant from Kingsway ( in Holborn, London ), to a modern building at 1 Stanhope Gate ( near Hyde Park Corner, in Mayfair, London ).

In this context, writings of Lord Macaulay ," the brain behind the system of English education ", are referred to as an indication of this.

Moore was for many years a strong advocate for Catholic Emancipation which he regarded as the source of all problems in Ireland and the sole reason behind the 1798 Rebellion-a point he made in his 1831 biography Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.

On its third reading, on the 18 April 1848, Prime Minister Lord John Russell said " as long as he had any breath in him he would oppose the Repeal of the Legislative Union ", which clearly shows the motivation behind the new act.

Lord Stafford and his brother are killed and their bodies dragged through the streets behind horses.

However, Lord Salisbury was also behind the Salisbury Convention of 1945, which states that the House of Lords shall not oppose the second reading of any government legislation promised in its election manifesto.

Lord Halifax in the middle ( behind a seated Franklin D. Roosevelt ) as a member of the Pacific War Council.

The early thought behind Legalism was first formed by Shang Yang in the book of Lord Shang and was further developed by Li Si as a realist reform oriented philosophy meant to strengthen government and reinforce adherence to the law.

The decision behind the selection of Rup chang nai thong nam, meaning Image of an Elephant in a Body of Water, as the provincial seal was because this was the origin of Mae Hong Son's founding, which first began with Lord Kaeo of Ma being sent to capture elephants for the Lord of Chiang Mai ( 1825 – 1846 ).

Lord Hervey published an attack on the Craftsman, and Pulteney, either openly or behind the person of Amhurst, its editor, replied to the attack.

Lord Peter is retired from active service and, while still involved in intelligence issues, would not be sent again behind enemy lines.

Lord Balfour was in attendance, when Lloyd George explained the history behind the agreements.

He stood again in the 2011 election, this time finishing third behind Lord Michael Forsyth and successful candidate Alistair Moffat.

By Tudor times, the Lord High Treasurer had achieved a place among the Great Officers of State, behind the Lord Chancellor and above the Master of the Horse.

Commander Lord Roderick Blaine, having participated in the suppression of a rebellion on the planet of New Chicago, is given command of an Imperial battlecruiser, INSS MacArthur, when the captain has to stay behind to restore order on the planet.