From the most distant stars in the sky to the screen in front of your face, light is everywhere. But the exact nature of light, and how it travels, has long puzzled scientists. One question in ...

Light doesn’t simply shift from being a wave to a particle at some energy threshold. Instead, all light, irrespective of ...

You’re not going to believe this because I couldn’t, but then there are so many facts coming to light nowadays that are, at ...

To measure the properties of a particle such as an electron, one needs to use a measuring device, usually light or radiation ... Schrödinger's more visualizable wave theory.) ...

One of the most irrational--yet essential--features of quantum mechanics is that light may be both particles and waves. We refer to this as wave-particle duality. The theory dates back to the 17th ...

According to research from Northumbria University, several factors, including astrophysical shock waves ... like cosmic particle accelerators to launch individual electrons into interstellar space at ...