Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to ...

Calculations intended to feel out the interactions between light and the material that produces it may inadvertently describe ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, have developed an intriguing computer model to understand how light and ...

Researchers have defined the precise shape of a single photon, a huge leap forward in quantum physics and material science.

These conclusions have posed many other questions for particle physicists ... then we can extend Einstein’s theory of relativity to those dimensions light is forbidden from entering. The implications ...

The first seven chapters describe how light behaves, develop Newton's particle theory, introduce waves and an electromagnetic wave theory of light, discover the photon, and culminate in the ...

The pollen grains can be observed moving in random directions using a light microscope. Brownian provides evidence for the kinetic particle model of matter. The microscopic particles that are ...