The document discusses light interference using a Michelson interferometer. It describes how the interferometer splits and recombines light beams that traveled different path lengths, causing a phase difference. An experiment is measuring bright outputs of light with a wavelength of 500 nm as a mirror is moved different distances within a vacuum chamber. If the mirror is moved 250 nm, the output would be the same as initially since the path length change is 500 nm. If the mirror is accidentally moved 2 mm instead of the intended 2 μm, the path length change would be 1000 times greater, leading to a huge miscalculation in the experiment results.