• Max_Power@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    After listening to 100s of science podcasts, watching 1000s of science vids on YT, and sleeping on a Neil Degrasse Tyson pillow I still don’t understand how something can be both a particle and a wave. Sounds made up, like by a lazy SWE

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      A photon is a quanta of light. Our picture of light, to this point, has been that of a wave. Wave-like characteristics are responsible for diffraction and refraction. However, light is absorbed and emitted one photon at a time.

      I knew some new study would betrayal me, well I still wave my particle…