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Is Light a Particle or a Wave?

Naval

Naval Ravikant

Business, Technology

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

There is a video on YouTube which has Deutsch explained

0:03.3

the famous quantum double slit experiment,

0:05.9

which is about particle wave duality,

0:07.7

is light a particle or a wave.

0:09.7

You pass it through a slit,

0:10.8

depending on whether there's observer

0:12.3

and interference or not,

0:13.4

it ends up in a wave pattern,

0:14.6

it ends up as individual photons.

0:16.5

And this is the famous experiment,

0:18.5

which has baffled people for a long time

0:20.7

and caused them to revise their worldview.

0:22.6

The one that let Einstein to say,

0:24.1

God does not play dice with the universe.

0:26.4

Correct.

0:27.2

Einstein was a realist.

0:28.8

At the time when the founders of quantum theory

0:30.9

were trying to develop a good explanation

0:33.8

of what precisely was going on

0:35.9

with these experiments in quantum theory,

0:38.2

Einstein rejected all of them on the basis

0:40.6

that they weren't realistic.

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