The ‘great smoky dragon’ of quantum physics
Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 12:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Since the 17th century, science was intrigued by the nature of light. Isaac Newton was certain that it consists of a stream of particles. His contemporary Christiaan Huygens, however, argued that light is a wave. Modern quantum physics says that both were right. Light can be observed both as particles and as waves — depending […]