This is a really beautiful presentation of a real experiment: Subscribe to Huygens Optics . Here are some screenshots of his slides, not in the right order though, so watch the video! See also this recent paper for some idea of the kinds of thing astros are doing with this: A proposal for measuring photon temporal coherence in continuum radiation by Richard Fong: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6662 : A technique complementary to those for spectral lines is proposed for the observation of continuum radiation. As, quantum mechanically, the radiation is a mixture of pure states, it should be possible to measure the temporal coherence of the states as a function of energy. We propose here experiments with just this possibility, showing the empirical grounds on which it is based. A simple means of measuring temporal coherence is with the extent of the interference pattern produced in a Young's double-slit experiment. Thus, we propose the use of such an experiment, but with a screen of ene...