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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    That's probably the best answer I have had so far on the matter.Regards
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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    Of course that is clear thank you
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    Is the cat alive, dead, both or unknown

    I should perhaps point out that at no point did I say the state of the cat being dead and alive was a non-zero probability scenario, I was simply stating the lack of determinism! The "slipperiness" of language
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    Is the cat alive, dead, both or unknown

    Apologies Bill, I was going by what I had read in Griffiths intro to Quantum Mechanics, we live and learn, thanks for posting that link! Very interesting
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    Is the cat alive, dead, both or unknown

    The cat is in a superposition of states and when you observe the cat it will collapse into the dead state, or the alive state! It's a thought experiment simply to highlight that until a measurement is made there is no way to predict the state of the cat. Determinism disappears on a quantum level...
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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    Or rather his assertion that photons are particle-like
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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    I'm comfortable with all of that. I know about wave equations and particles however I just wasn't sure about Feynman's logic
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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    Because if we call it a particle we collapse the wave function to a single point? So it cannot have a probability to be "everywhere" like quantum theory boasts
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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    But as far as the properties of said particle which we have a probability for?
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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    That is all fine, I'm aware I have only scratched the surface of the quantum world. However we do not have particle equations? We have wave equations? Or is this a matter of mere naming
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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    As far as quantum objects I suppose it's hard to say what they really are except from mathematical abstractions
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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    No one really know what electrons are, they have never been observed, along with a lot of constituent parts of matter (strings) it was a general comment which I regret ;)
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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    Yea I assumed anything quantum would obey the Uncertainty principle, it all seems rather vague at times. I suppose no one really knows
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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    I'm just going into my honours year so wave-particle duality was a concert introduced! Any helpful resources?
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    Exploring the Nature of Light: Is Light Made of Particles or Waves?

    I have been reading Richard Feynmans Quantum Electrodyamics and quite early in the first chapter he asserts that Photons are particles. His reasoning that as you decrease the intensity of light incident on a photomultiplier the clicks which the multiplier make become less frequent but equally...
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