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Maybe I’m missing the importance of this happening in this experiment specifically, but isn’t this already a known phenomena seen in the double-slit experiment?
by willy_k 3y ago
Maybe I’m missing the importance of this happening in this experiment specifically, but isn’t this already a known phenomena seen in the double-slit experiment?
- JoBrad 3y agoAccording to TFA, it’s different. > Just a few months after developing the device, Alù and his colleagues observed more surprising behavior when they tried creating a time reflection in that waveguide while shooting two beams of light at each other inside it. Normally colliding beams of light behave as waves, producing interference patterns where their overlapping peaks and troughs add up or cancel out like ripples on water (in “constructive” or “destructive” interference, respectively). But light can, in fact, act as a pointlike projectile, a photon, as well as a wavelike oscillating field—that is, it has “wave-particle duality.” Generally a particular scenario will distinctly elicit just one behavior or the other, however. For instance, colliding beams of light don’t bounce off each other like billiard balls! But according to Alù and his team’s experiments, when a time reflection occurs, it seems that they do.