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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 30 August 2011 10:01:31AM 1 point [-]

If there's a particle, there's no banding in the future. If there's banding, there wasn't a particle in the past.

At any given point in the configuration space there is a particle, but since we're not looking at it (and it's not interacting with anything else) no decoherence occurs, and so we still get an interference pattern.

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