Experiments that revealed light's nature.

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The discussion focuses on key experiments that elucidate the nature of light, specifically the double slit experiment and Young's fringes. The double slit experiment demonstrates that light exhibits both particle and wave characteristics, as it can be in multiple places simultaneously. Young's fringes further confirm the wave nature of light through the phenomenon of superposition, where light waves can interfere and cancel each other out.

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Please, I need a list of definitive experiments that revealed light's nature.
 
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Well there's the double slit experiment, light was into places at once so the decided that it was particles that behaved ike waves. Young's fringes showed that light is a wave because superposition takes place (ie. they can cancle out).
 

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