[AprilfromTexas]

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[saganite]

Enlightening. Thanks.

[FairOpinion]

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[fat city]

I have Schrodinger's Toilet at my house- I flush it, and if I walk away it keeps running. If I stand and watch it- it stops.

I know it's a combination of waves and particles. Very large particles.

[I see my hands]

That was surprisingly light reading.

[jwh_Denver]

80 years my ass. I've known this for 25 years and how could I have known it unless I read it somewhere?

[indthkr]

cool physics bump for later........

[brityank]

“Afshar’s experiment consists of the clever idea of putting small absorbing wires at the exact position of the dark interference fringes, where you expect no light,” Knoesel said. “He then observed that the wires do not change the total light intensity, so there are really dark fringes at the position of the wires. That proves that light also behaves as a wave in the same experiment in which it behaves as a particle.”

I don't get it. I stand in the sun, and my body casts a shadow, and my hand's shadow disappears when I move it into my trunk shadow. Are these learned Solons saying that my hand shadow can still be discerned in some way?

[Bittersweetmd]

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[Lurker]

So it's a desert topping and a floor wax?

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[The_Media_never_lie]

Thanks for illuminating this subject.

[bkepley]

If true it's pretty odd that guys like Einstein and Bohr didn't think of it first.

[mad_as_he$$]

Not bragging, but in 1979 I got thrown out of Physics 101 because I would not let go of this exact theory, It was heresy in the Physics world at the time. The professor would hear none of it. Seemed only logical to me at the time. He accused me of "Star Trek" physics. Well joke on him. Roddenberry turned out to be right on many things that have been verified since then.

[aruanan]

Flores continued, “It is interesting to note that even after 80 years we can still gain a better understanding about the nature of light using refined measurement techniques and creative ideas and therefore are able add to the vast insights of former scientists.”

Except when challenging something like the Big Bang by demonstrating that red shift of quasars and galaxies is only partly due to recessional velocity. The answer to this is to refuse publication to those scientists who claim otherwise and to lock them out of the observatories.

[applpie]

Interesting how we are seeing the demise of a number of major theories. Sounds wierd but this makes light sound a bit like it has some characteristics of water....

[Maceman]

I have alway been confused by the idea of light as waves, since waves require some type of medium to propagate them (the way sound waves can only move through air or water, but not in a vacuum.)

So it always seemed to me that if light is made of waves, it would not travel through space.

I'm no physicist, but I did study acoustics in music school back in the '70s.

I know that light does have some characteristics of waves, but it always struck me that it fundamentally had to be comprised of particles.

[G8 Diplomat]

Light is made of particles AND waves, not OR

Yes, I knew that. Thank you junior-year physics!

[RightWhale]

This evidence tends to prove that science should be left to credentialed scientists and not circulated in the general population.

[tet68]

“This dual nature of light led to the insight that all fundamental physical objects include a wave and a particle aspect, even electrons, protons and students.”

I love a guy with a sense of humor.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Ping.