Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to get there.

Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to get there.

An experiment that supposedly contradicted the wave-particle duality principle of quantum physics has been reanalyzed, revealing a flaw.

Imperial physicists have recreated the famous double-slit experiment, which showed light behaving as particles and a wave, in time rather than space.

IT is not generally known that by using ‘Polaroid’ filters of sufficient size (1½ in. to 2 in. diameter), optical interference-figures afforded by crystals in convergent polarized light ...

Interference patterns are generated when light from a point source passes through two parallel slits. Electrons emitted from diatomic molecules produce analogous patterns, but these couldn't be ...

Typically, the particle nature and the wave nature have to be observed separately; if you track the particles through a single slit, the interference pattern vanishes.

The wave nature of light in super-slow motion Physicists achieve high-precision measurement of the wave characteristics of focused, ultra-short light pulses Date: July 12, 2017 Source: University ...