I usually see myself as being pretty solid on my general science knowledge, but this one continues to stump me.
Light is photons, little particles that move through space… but then it’s also a wave, like the visible light portion of the electromagnetic spectrum? How can it be both? How would photons red shift over great distances? Do we just not know what light is, really?
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The mind blowing part is that when electrons are fired ONE AT A TIME through the double slit experiment, they still produce the classic wave like interference pattern
This should be an impossible result of firing a single particle through one of two slits. There’s is nothing to interfere with. The wave pattern is the result of two waves interfering… Yet one single particle “interferes with itself”.
That is where things get really difficult to comprehend because you have to think of the light as neither wave or particle.. it is just the potential to be either. It is the only logical conclusion
This is proof of the wave particle duality, and that it’s actually not a case of just not knowing what it is. Light behaves as both
It’s pretty much proven magic lol – we know what we see, but nobody knows why. [This](https://youtu.be/ISdBAf-ysI0?t=1413) documentary probably explains things more clearly if you’re interested.
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