The 'great smoky dragon' of quantum physics

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From	Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Subject	The 'great smoky dragon' of quantum physics
Date	2016-03-10 09:50 -0600
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The 'great smoky dragon' of quantum physics
> http://phys.org/news/2016-03-great-smoky-dragon-quantum-physics.html


> University of Vienna physicists have, for the first time, evaluated
> the almost 100-year long history of quantum delayed-choice
> experiments—from the theoretical beginnings with Albert Einstein to
> the latest research works in the present. The extensive study now
> appeared in the renowned journal Reviews of Modern Physics.
>
> 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 which
> characteristic is measured in an experiment, it presents itself more
> as one or the other. This so-called wave-particle dualism is one of
> the foundational principles of quantum physics. This questions our
> common sense: can one and the same indeed be of two contradictory
> natures at the same time?


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The 'great smoky dragon' of quantum physics Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 09:50 -0600
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