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Except that it doesn't make sense.
A detector is placed near one of the slits: Now, when a photon triggers the detector, we know which slit it went through. Interestingly, the interference pattern disappears!The "eraser" comes in: In some versions of the experiment, another measurement is made on the photons after they pass through the slits. This can involve measuring their polarization or phase. Depending on the type of measurement, the interference pattern can reappear, even though we "know" which slit the photons went through!
The only way a photon can "trigger" a detector is by transferring energy to it, so whatever happens downstream from the detector doesn't include the original photon, hence no interference, and whatever else you measure isn't related to the photon that triggered the detector!
Slit, yes. Everything else, no. But beware - when discussing propagation, we need a wave model, not a particle model.
A slit is an absence of stuff to interact with, everything else is a presence.
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