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Showing posts with label Nature Communications. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Light: Particle/Wave? . . .Topographic Map?



      The first-ever image of light behaving as both a particle and a wave was published yesterday in Nature Communications and is shown below:





      This short summary article from Science Daily describes the procurement of the image by researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Quantum mechanics in bright , primary colors!

      The first thing I noted was the similarity to contour lines on topographic maps:









        Closing all those circles from contour lines/waves into pinnacles/particles brought me to Topo Gigio's brother, a quantum mechanic ;-) :

         



            Off to enjoy time with my brothers, my son, and my mom. 

            Happy March! Enjoy March fo(u)rth tomorrow, the most assertive day of the year and the anniversary of my son's beginning of his first trip around the sun. 

March Forth and Prosper,
Steph