It's a very nice site, but the science part is very bad.
For the diffraction experiment it's not necessary to use a microscopic system like atoms, you can do the experiment in a vacuum chamber. He says that the diffraction patterns are caused by the heat, but they are preset at low temperature. Probably doing the experiment in air and heating the system cause air currents with different refraction index and turbulence that blurs the patterns.
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