Wolfram's Rule 34 (XKCD)

If I understood it myself, I'd explain it, but here are a few spam-free links that discuss it:


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/302369/wolframs-rule-34-in-xkcd

http://fakerake.com/2008/282/wolframs-rule-34-for-xkcd-readers/

http://atlas.wolfram.com/01/01/34/01_01_1_34.html

The 1st includes the 2nd and 3rd, as well as some others.

The original comic: http://www.xkcd.com/505/

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.