Do You Know If Light Is A Particle or A Wave?

Which one is it?

This question has been debated for some time and the answer might surprise you.  There is an extremely old experiment called the double silt experiment which will help us shed light 😉 on this extremely old question.  The narrator in this video examines this old test in modern society and starts off by asking a lot of common folk what they think light actually is.  You might just be surprised to hear some of the answers if you are a science or physics person or maybe you’re not entirely sure yourself, or have just forgotten since physics class.  Rest assured, they get to the bottom of it in this clip and it’s really fun.  The original scientist was named Thomas Young.

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26 Comments

  1. Jared Bock said:

    Light is a wave form until it is observed and then it collapses into a particle. The double slit experiment is a perfect example of this.

  2. Sam Joyce said:

    You can’t really look at light when it’s moving at c threw space, but when it makes contact with anything, then what it contacted effects it’s form.

  3. Joseph M Anderson said:

    Neither, it’s another form of energy. Just like radiant heat. Are eyes only let us perceive what we understand and only certain forms of energy. An electric arc is pure uncut energy it’s heat, it’s light, it’s radiation, it’s etc

  4. Mike Guay said:

    It has been established for over a century that it is both a particle and a wave. This is 7th grade baby talk science.

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