Posted on June 30, 2012 |
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About a year or two ago, I stumbled across an interesting question asked by a user named 32koala on Reddit’s AskScience board: “Is light made of particles, or waves?” With my quantum physics course still in recent memory, and having thoroughly enjoyed Eliezer Yudkowsky’s excellent quantum physics sequence (on which this post is heavily based), I found that the answers the commenters had given didn’t quite elaborate or clarify things enough for my liking. I asked people if they wanted a more thorough explanation, and after receiving several comments from people expressing their interest, I gave it to them. In my perennial tradition of not wanting to half-ass things, it ended up being even longer than I expected and I spent a lot of time afterwards answering questions to the best of my ability at the time. It got a reasonable amount of attention for the day, and I got comments saying that it deserved a better home than a comment buried in the depths of a Reddit thread. It took over a year, but I’ve finally followed through that suggestion. I’ve cleaned it up slightly from its initial version, but for the most part the content is similar to...
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