{"id":4423,"date":"2024-09-22T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T17:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2024-09-22T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T17:32:22","slug":"the-answer-complementarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/22\/the-answer-complementarity\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ANSWER: COMPLEMENTARITY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, yet again, what is the answer? Is light a wave, or is light a stream of particles? Well, actually it\u2019s neither (or both). Light apparently is something different altogether, but it&nbsp;<em>behaves<\/em>&nbsp;as a wave when the experiment is designed to reveal its wave-like properties, while it&nbsp;<em>behaves<\/em>&nbsp;as a particle when the experiment is designed to show its particle-like properties. This schizophrenic personality of light is known as the&nbsp;<em>\u201cwave\u2013particle duality.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The type of experiment will show either light\u2019s particle-like or wave-like behavior, but not both at once, which made Niels Bohr state that the wave and particle aspects of light are complementary to each other. The concept of&nbsp;<em>complementarity<\/em>&nbsp;derives directly from wave\u2013particle duality, and states that all physical reality is determined and defined by manifestations of properties that are limited by trade-offs between complementary pairs of these properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, yet again, what is the answer? Is light a wave, or is light a stream of particles? Well, actually it\u2019s neither (or both). Light apparently is something different altogether, but it&nbsp;behaves&nbsp;as a wave when the experiment is designed to reveal its wave-like properties, while it&nbsp;behaves&nbsp;as a particle when the experiment is designed to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wave-particle-duality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/evaporation.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","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=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4424,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/4424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}