First-Ever Photo Of Quantum Mechanics–Light Behaving As Both Wave And Particle

Posted March 2, 2015 19:30 by Comments (6)


Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in Switzerland have captured the first photograph of light behaving as both a wave and a particle. “This experiment demonstrates that, for the first time ever, we can film quantum mechanics—and its paradoxical nature—directly,” Fabrizio Carbone, who led the research team that designed the technique to…

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6 responses to First-Ever Photo Of Quantum Mechanics–Light Behaving As Both Wave And Particle

  1. tracey marie March 2nd, 2015 at 21:27

    Very very cool!

  2. Um Cara March 2nd, 2015 at 21:29

    “It’s a dessert topping AND a floor wax!”

    • Gindy51 March 3rd, 2015 at 07:20

      We already have that. Cool whip.

  3. Aielyn March 2nd, 2015 at 23:51

    I’m confused – the lower layer is just a level curve representation of the upper layer.

    • Roctuna March 3rd, 2015 at 10:03

      It does look like a contour map of the waveform. Trouble is, we don’t know what the contours represent. A bit more explanation would have been helpful.

  4. Roctuna March 3rd, 2015 at 13:45

    Perhaps Ben Carson can tell us if this is science or propaganda.

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