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Young’s double slit experiment breaks a single light beam into two sources. would the same pattern be obtained for two independent sources like the headlights of a distant car?

No, two independent sources of light are not coherent. These waves are not in phase. Therefore, their crests and troughs do not arrive a point in phase and the reinforcement and cancelation phenomena are not observed.

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