{"id":4291,"date":"2024-09-22T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2024-09-22T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T16:30:05","slug":"where-does-this-leave-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/22\/where-does-this-leave-us\/","title":{"rendered":"WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE US?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Einstein made very convincing arguments for the particle nature of light. However, as we saw in chapter 1, Young\u2019s experiments with the interference of light, and Maxwell\u2019s explanations about the polarization of electromagnetic waves had already destroyed Newton\u2019s view of light as a stream of particles. So where does this leave us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will return to this discussion in chapter 5. Suffice it to say that the question of whether light is a wave or a particle brought about the core philosophical shift that evolved into today\u2019s quantum physics: light behaves BOTH as a wave and as a stream of particles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Einstein made very convincing arguments for the particle nature of light. However, as we saw in chapter 1, Young\u2019s experiments with the interference of light, and Maxwell\u2019s explanations about the polarization of electromagnetic waves had already destroyed Newton\u2019s view of light as a stream of particles. So where does this leave us? We will return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-light-as-particles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/bulb.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4292,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions\/4292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}