The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave

ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE EPFL ^ | March 2, 2015 | Staff

[C19fan]

Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both of these aspects of light at the same time. Now, scientists at EPFL have succeeded in capturing the first-ever snapshot of this dual behavior.

Quantum mechanics tells us that light can behave simultaneously as a particle or a wave. However, there has never been an experiment able to capture both natures of light at the same time; the closest we have come is seeing either wave or particle, but always at different times. Taking a radically different experimental approach, EPFL scientists have now been able to take the first ever snapshot of light behaving both as a wave and as a particle. The breakthrough work is published in Nature Communications.

[The Cajun]

snapshot of light behaving both as a wave and as a particle

Waveticle, yep that's it, *waveticle*, you heard it here first!

[Cvengr]

So was the camera film a particle or a wave?

[Cvengr]

So was the camera film a particle or a wave?

[dfwgator]

[minnesota_bound]

I have seen this before. Usually around Christmas time

[Holdem Or Foldem]

“The Schrodinger family is equally unimpressed.”

What about the cat?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks C19fan.

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[samtheman]

Neither particle or wave, light now appears to actually be a multi-colored flotation device.

[MHGinTN]

I thought you got those in the kidneys?