Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Hoffmann , Banesh (1959-06-01), The strange story of the quantum, Dover Pubns, Retrieved on 2012-06-05Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: science Memes
05 JUN 2012
Questions Without Answer
Daddy,' she says, 'which came first, the chicken or the egg?' Steadfastly, even desperately, we have been refusing to commit ourselves. But our questioner is insistent. The truth alone will satisfy her. Nothing less. At long last we gather up courage and issue our solemn pronouncement on the subject: 'Yes!' So it is here. 'Daddy, is it a wave or a particle?' 'Yes.' 'Daddy, is the electron here or is it there?' 'Yes.' 'Daddy, do scientists really know what they are talking about?' 'Yes!'Folksonomies: questions conundrums
Folksonomies: questions conundrums
Example of an inquisitive child asking the hard questions of science.
05 JUN 2012
Wave-Particle Duality
It did not cause anxiety that Maxwell's equations did not apply to gravitation, since nobody expected to find any link between electricity and gravitation at that particular level. But now physics was faced with an entirely new situation. The same entity, light, was at once a wave and a particle. How could one possibly imagine its proper size and shape? To produce interference it must be spread out, but to bounce off electrons it must be minutely localized. This was a fundamental dilemma, and...Folksonomies: physics
Folksonomies: physics
The trouble with conceptualizing it.