Newton insisted that light was a particle-like ray — a corpuscle, in his words — pointing to phenomena like the refraction of light through a crystal.

Light doesn’t simply shift from being a wave to a particle at some energy threshold. Instead, all light, irrespective of energy, shows both wave-like and particle-like behavior.

Wave-particle duality was born to the anguished screams of physicists everywhere. If light is both a particle and a wave, why not everything else?

Since the 17th century, when Isaac Newton and Christiaan Huygens first debated the nature of light, scientists have been puzzling over whether light is best viewed as a wave or a particle -- or ...

The film explores the dual nature of light, demonstrating its behavior as both a wave and a particle through an experiment involving a double slit. It shows how light creates an interference ...

Scientists say fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe—not particles and waves.

But in 1905, Albert Einstein discovered that light can also behave like particles. Quantum physics later revealed that light is both particle and wave, not simply one or the other.

For wave-particle duality and entanglement, progress is finally possible if we avoid the customary pitfalls November 16, 2020 by Paul A. Klevgard ...

Photons are particles of light, or waves, or something like that, right? [Mithuna Yoganathan] explains this conundrum in more detail than you probably got in your high school physics class. While ...

A new particle, the ultralight boson, could swirl around black holes, releasing detectable gravitational waves News By Paul Sutter published December 15, 2020 ...