
The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know
Seeing Light as Wave and Particle
Educational · May 21, 2021 · 29 min The Great Courses Signature Collection
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S1, E3: Probe one of the most baffling mysteries of physics: the wave-particle duality of light. Trace the debate over the nature of light to its apparent solution in 1801, when Thomas Young demonstrated that light is a wave. A century later, Einstein proved that light also behaves as a particle. Astonishingly, further work showed that electrons and other matter also have this Janus-faced identity.
Educational · May 21, 2021 · 29 min