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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Wave, particle, photon

Light is a puzzling thing, since it exhibits behaviors of a particle, and of a wave. David Morgan-Mar includes an interesting, understandable (that is, I understand what he's saying, though some of the finer points of the phenomenon escape me) discussion of this as part of his annotations on this strip: http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1944.html

You may need to scroll down a bit.

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