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The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave
ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE EPFL ^
| March 2, 2015
| Staff
Posted on 03/02/2015 12:52:37 PM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: light; particle; quantum; quantummechanics; stringtheory; uncertainty; wave
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To: C19fan
snapshot of light behaving both as a wave and as a particle Waveticle, yep that's it, *waveticle*, you heard it here first!
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03/02/2015 2:37:17 PM PST
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The Cajun
(Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
To: C19fan
So was the camera film a particle or a wave?
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03/02/2015 2:37:26 PM PST
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Cvengr
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To: C19fan
So was the camera film a particle or a wave?
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03/02/2015 2:37:49 PM PST
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Cvengr
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To: TexasCajun
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03/02/2015 2:38:08 PM PST
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dfwgator
To: C19fan
I have seen this before. Usually around Christmas time
To: WayneS
“The Schrodinger family is equally unimpressed.”
What about the cat?
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03/02/2015 4:13:00 PM PST
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Holdem Or Foldem
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03/03/2015 3:49:39 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: C19fan
Neither particle or wave, light now appears to actually be a multi-colored flotation device.
To: Hot Tabasco
I thought you got those in the kidneys?
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03/03/2015 4:33:44 PM PST
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MHGinTN
(Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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