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Breakthrough experiment in quantum mechanics particle and wave nature of photons observed

zidanguszidangus Veteran
edited June 2011 in Buddhism Today
Just read a really interesting article about recent findings, regarding the particle and wave nature of photons being observed for the first time together.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13626587

Comments

  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
    edited June 2011
    This is interesting and hopefully will lead to some further breakthroughs. However, they weren't actually able to see the wave and particle function of an individual photon just the average.

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    He explained to BBC News that "while the uncertainty principle does indeed forbid one from knowing the position and momentum of a particle exactly at the same time, it turns out that it is possible to ask 'what was the average momentum of the particles which reached this position?'" .

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    So its a possibly a helpful way to observe photons, but in the end its not a negation of the uncertainty principle.
  • Malachy12Malachy12
    The first time I saw this mentioned was in a film titled "What the bleep do we know" (Literally bleep, I wasn't censoring anything). Some good stuff in that movie, mixed with some mumbo-jumbo. The bit about particles acting as waves perked my ears.
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