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What does the wave principle of light actually represent?
Light has a dual nature, one of photons and the other of waves. But energy doesn't really travel in waves. So what do the wave represent?
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Splitting light into colors, mathematical expression (fourier transforms)
I am trying to solve a problem that includes a function of the light hitting a certain area. My question is, how would I change a function $G(x)$ of photons hitting a certain area to include just ...
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Newton's corpuscular theory
Where did Newton get the idea that light had a particle nature and not a wave nature? At those times, AFAICT there were no phenomena that showed particle nature. But wave nature is much easier to ...
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Why is the speed-of-light “the upper limit” rather than the speed of “particle type X”?
Basically, I can't stop wondering why light (the photon) is so special, compared to all the other particles known (and unknown) to modern day physics.
Could it be that there exists an upper limit on ...
