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Two independent monochromatic sources cannot act as coherent sources, why?

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Two independent source of light cannot be coherent. This is because light is emitted by individual atoms. When they return to ground state. Even the smallest source of light contains billions of atoms which obviously cannot emit light waves in the same phase.
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