why cant two identical and independent sodium lamps act as coherent sources?

Two independent sources of light (like two sodium lamps) cannot act as coherent sources. This is because millions of atoms are involved in the process of emission of light is each case and the process can be completely random. This randomness causes the phase difference to vary continuously in both cases which lends to the sources of light being incoherent.

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no they cant because the emitted light waves are not coherent.

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