July 2019
Beginner
652 pages
19h 23m
English
DOI: 10.1201/b22101-17
FIGURE17.1
God never wrote a good play in his life.
—Kurt Vonnegut
At the dawn of the twentieth century, physicists started noticing something very strange. They noticed that electromagnetic waves and subatomic particles, which had long been thought to be fairly well-understood phenomena, were interacting in unexpected ways. Years of theorizing, experimenting, and theorizing again led to a bizarre conclusion: waves and particles were the same thing, both manifestations of a singular phenomenon. This “wave-particle duality” challenged the ...
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