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Let's try to work the problem in a way that avoids pedantry, just for a moment. This is one of my favorite PBS clips from the 80's in which Richard Feynman exp
by RichardCA 6y ago
Let's try to work the problem in a way that avoids pedantry, just for a moment.
This is one of my favorite PBS clips from the 80's in which Richard Feynman explains how strange the nature of light and by extension all of electromagnetic radiation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjHJ7FmV0M4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjHJ7FmV0M4
If you listen carefully, you notice that he never talks about wave/particle duality (because he wasn't giving a classroom lecture).
What he does talk about is an electric field that waves slosh around in, and that something "elaborate and complicated" is going on at a deeper level.
That's what I'm on about, if you were pressed to explain it so that a bright child would get it, how would you do that?
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoFor this problem/phenomenon, I'd probably just talk about waves and interference. I might mumble something about something elaborate and complicated going on at a deeper level, or I might ignore that and just talk about waves.