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Photograph of light as both a particle and wave
- Practicality 12y agoI am trying to figure out if the image in the link is actually the resulting photograph. The reason I mention it is the published paper in Nature does not contain it: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150302/ncomms7407/full/ncomms7407.html http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150302/ncomms7407/full/nco... It also seems to not be light, but something similar.
- swah 12y agoThe camera has be the interesting part.
- hodwik 12y ago"Photograph" light? Photons are bosons, thus they don't interact, right? So you can't bounce light off of light to photograph it? Edit: Okay, so I was being pedantic. Anyway, if the wave is propagating through a wire, and waves have duration, then aren't you really capturing a picture of a wire propagating an old wave, and a new set of photons acting as particles? That's like taking a picture of a boiling pot of water and saying you got a picture of water simultaneously as a liquid and a gas, because there is liquid water in the pot and steam rising off of it.
- sctb 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9131758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9131758