Light as a Wave and Particle Seen Simutaneously and The Shape of a Photon

[roberth]

I blew away my original OP so now I have rebuilt this OP.

The exact nature of visible light is a mystery that has puzzled man for centuries. Greek scientists from the ancient Pythagorean discipline postulated that every visible object emits a steady stream of particles, while Aristotle concluded that light travels in a manner similar to waves in the ocean. Even though these ideas have undergone numerous modifications and a significant degree of evolution over the past 20 centuries, the essence of the dispute established by the Greek philosophers remains to this day.

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/...cleorwave.html

Technically, the headlines are not incorrect. Yet, to me and others, they imply something more radical than what was actually observed. To cut to the chase, an individual photon cannot be observed acting as both a pure particle and wave at the same time. But if you assemble a group of many different photons, you can observe some acting like particles and others acting like waves. Many stories did not make this clear.

https://www.insidescience.org/news/n...ticle-and-wave

Shape of a Photon

Physicists created a hologram of a single light particle, a feat previously thought impossible. Cathal O’Connell reports.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/w...pe-is-a-photon

[HoneyBadger]

Science is pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.

[roberth]

Sorry about the content - the editor wasn't letting me use the QUOTES and then when I pasted my content was invisible to me...now of course this mess is visible to everyone.

I do not understand alot of this but I like to read about it and I work to understand what I can.

I think the microverse is as intriguing as the universe.

[Bailey Guns]

I was pretty much lost at "This experiment..."

[roberth]

Hologram of a photon.

[Irving]

Hologram of a photon.

I saw a girl with a tattoo on her lower back that looked just like that the other day.

[roberth]

Back to the top since I fixed my stuff.

[TEAMRICO]

I saw a hologram of Tupac once......

[Irving]

We used to play Light as a wave, stiff as a particle at science camp when I was a kid.

[Jer]

My dog's breath smells like dog food.