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Scientists pondered for centuries whether light was a particle or a wave - and it turns out it's a bit of both. Examine the question that stumped Newton in this first part of a two-part video. For the second part, click the button at the end of the video or follow this link: • What Is the Quantum Th...
This video is from the series The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality, presented by Don Lincoln
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00:00 Newton and the Particle Theory of Light
03:51 Double-Slit Experiment Demonstrates the Wave Theory
06:28 Hertz Introduces New Twist to Wave Theory
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[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

The simplest explanation is that light is a wave with particle characteristics as a probabilistic future unfolds photon by photon. This idea is supported by the fact that light photon ∆E=hf energy is continuously transforming potential energy into the kinetic Eₖ=½mv² energy of matter, in the form of electrons. Kinetic energy is the energy of what is actually ‘happening’.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Those are definitely words.

[@genghisgalahad8465]

Doctor Don Lincoln!!

[@cjheaford]

1887: “There is no such thing as the Luminiferous aether” 1965: “There is an ever-present Electromagnetic Field that exists everywhere in all of space”

[@SmithsMobile]

Different things, light is a self propagating electromagnetic wave, the so called ether was a substance.

[@xNYCMarc]

I think Dark matter is more analogous to Luminiferous aether.

[@jamescollier3]

@@xNYCMarc haha yes

[@bloodyorphan]

@@xNYCMarc Higgs field, dark matter is an observed effect in the Higgs field (i.e. Gravity with no apparent source)

[@xNYCMarc]

@@bloodyorphan Yes, and?

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I never knew that Newton was a proponent of the particle nature of light. Great video, I’ll have to watch the fill series.

[@trollking202]

Corpuscles

[@sundareshvenugopal6575]

If the wave is produced by a vibrating particle, what makes the particle vibrate ? When wax is burnt in a candle, a good portion of the wax in combination with the air, is transformed into heat and light. It is a remarkably wonderous process which we take for granted, as being something fairly commonplace. But in the process, smoke is also produced. In a well aerated fairly large but dark and closed space, if a new candle is placed on a weighing scale and lit and the emergent amount of heat and light produced trapped inside the closed space is measured, it should give a fair idea of the amount of energy transformed, but only for that wax alone.

[@radinelaj3932]

Even not only the light but everything is both ( wave and particle too). You can't divide a body from its temperature, everything has its temperature, such are the things.

[@Flum666]

Yes!

[@bloodyorphan]

Calculating the G Constant The G constant is a Metric ratio. The calculation is straight forward enough, it is the difference in distance between the C** weight scale energies versus the actual measured distance between the electron and proton weights of Hydrogen. So the measured distance between the electron and *proton of Hydrogen in meters over 5C** (10C** string weight less the 5C string weight). *Remove the internal attraction between proton and electron using the Cavendish result. (Multiply measured distance by 1+Cavendish-G-constant) . The end result is a ratio of compression here on Earth. Remove the Earths' Gravity quotient (Multiply by 9.8) and you have our Solar Systems' G constant. M.B.Eringa 2021 LOL PS: "Time Dilation" is synonymous with "Spacial Compression" and Theoretically should always be replaceable anywhere you read or speak them them :-) ( Y.know , by definition and stuff. (Based on the original SWH astral conversation ~1990)

[@feltonhamilton21]

Light has the advantage for moving through a magnetic field and converting into a wave like the wave use for communicating with Voyager one which is 123 billion miles away from Earth, these waves of light takes approximately 2 days before Voyager one gets a message from Earth..

[@bloodyorphan]

Ligo - Interferometer *** Because of illegal Fusion experiments at Lawrence University USA and attempts by the US military to make more Plutonium under the guise of "Structural Testing" one of their air craft carriers, atomic particle weights created by photon interference are again producing lethal outputs, We will have to wait at least another 18 months before we can run these tests again *** So the LIGO description as I understand it goes, you shift the phase of the photon by halving the distance of one path. If you consider the temperature/frequency is the contention of the 3d space skin around the BB aperture, or the skin thickness varies as the time dilation collapses with a given heat and then space rushes in to feed the aperture and thickens again giving you a temperature frequency. If you consider the reaction point where the addition of the two frequency phases of the 2 photons combine with twice the spatial skin for the same aperture size and form a stable 2C^3 EM particle, which the sensor will not recognise as photon anymore. The proof is, the actual temperature of the sensor should be half the laser temperature and will exhibit in the sensor for twice as long if the laser is switched off, because: Twice the photon weight means twice the Time Dilation. *This raises an interesting question regarding particle weight versus temperature versus BB aperture which probably warrants further investigation. Twice the particle weight proven by time dilation/energy output, implies twice the temperature in the plasma Photonium equation for the same aperture size!. The temperature is moderated by the double 3d space skin time dilation (brings the temp back to single laser) + the new time dilation depth in the G space (bringing the temp down to half the laser temp). (or 1/4 for a single mirrored configuration) Double/Increase the laser temperature and you should create a 4C^3 Electron weight particle, detectable with a standard ion sensor. Use 2 50W lasers and you have a 5C^3 natural weight electron. Use 2 100W lasers and you have a 10C^3 natural weight proton. (C) M. B. Eringa August 2021

[@bloodyorphan]

Does General Relativity have anything to do with biology for instance ?? ... Dragons Tail Memory This is how I think animal memory works, Digital cameras use the same concept. The animals nervous system continually ionises the brain behind the eyes when you have your eyes open, when photons enter the nerves they will be trapped in the top of the ionised nerve endings slowly building up the missing electron mass using the photons received through the Eyes. As the electron weight reaches the full electron temperature (+5°C) it is carried away by the ionising process to the short term memory, as more electrons arrive the initial electrons get moved further and further away from the optic nerve into the brain forming the short/mid/long term memory structures. The playback is done by loading the memory nerves with a +1°C temperature and one photon is emitted, the memory persistence will only last for as long as those photons still exist in the nerve/memory structure, once all those photons are used for playback the original memory does not exist, and will only persist in your minds "eye" which is the final destination for the played back photons. (C) M.B.Eringa 1997

[@bloodyorphan]

All temperature frequencies are a compressed space density, therefore the actual temperature of the photon is the same, it's just expressing over an expanded/redshifted space that we observe as a different frequency. i.e. if the frequency is redshifted it is too light to interact with a crystaline structures' "stable electrons" Also ... If you consider velocity time dilates with temperature and @ 12 Planck most surfaces are 10^36 ish degrees Celsius The fact we can move at all means waves and holes in space are the only mechanism that allows any free movement in space for any particle matter we know !! Amplitude is just a bigger raw hole in space. Enjoy 🙂 Inverse Square Law E=1/(R2/R1)^2 General Relativity: TDR = (Temp/5)^2 seconds (+1c^3 == +1ºC) Lorentz Gamma: TDR = V/c (Result in Degrees Celsius) Higgs Velocity Weight TDR = ((v/c)+5)^2

[@SmithsMobile]

Nothing you said is true, thats just a load of gibberish you made up. 😮

[@markgallagher5908]

NO no no you forgot to include the space-time rotation matrix multiplied by the neutron transdimensional constant, you then need to integrate it with the triangular radius of the zitt field, its a common error its omission but it could lead to the collapse of the quark continuum.

[@SmithsMobile]

@@markgallagher5908 Your explanation actually makes perfect sense.

[@markgallagher5908]

@@SmithsMobile Thanks Steve I try my best...

[@bloodyorphan]

@@markgallagher5908 Wow you'd be perfect writting Bidens speeches M8!

[@tothestars911]

I have a question: If you do the double slit experiment with a laser in a room full of dust or fog, will you always get photons as particles? Since the fog will collapse the wave function? If not, what will you see in the fog? If you send a single photon, what will you see at the double slit and beyond it before the screen? As you can tell, i am not comprehending this phenomenon

[@schmetterling4477]

There are no particles. We taught you in high school that "photons" are quanta (small amounts) of energy. You just forgot. ;-)

[@bloodyorphan]

Skin THeory - Higgs Field Density The Higgs field is highest density when there is no Particle weights present. If you lower the Higgs Field Density with +1ºC you have exposed one photon of particle energy. M.B.Eringa 2023

[@MarkDemarest]

#SkinTherapy 🧐🤔🤫 #HugsFeelDentistry 🧐🤔😳 😜✌️ (*you're correct btw 👍)

[@SmithsMobile]

You are completely off your rocker, every time you start to type pure nonsense spews out.

[@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo]

Light is a wave after creation and until absorbtion, during creation and when absorbed it interacts and becomes quantized (quantization distortion).

[@SmithsMobile]

It depends entirely on the experiment used to detect it. Some experiments show its a wave whilst others show its a particle, hence wave particle duality. It's sneaky.

[@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo]

@@SmithsMobile What experiments show that light is quantized after creation and before absorbtion?

[@SmithsMobile]

@@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo All of them its a quantum object (photon), its energy level is always quantized, not sure what you mean

[@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo]

@@SmithsMobile Light behaves like a perfect wave, not photons, between creation and absorbtion.

[@SmithsMobile]

@@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo Now your getting even more confusing, light IS a photon, its always quantized, what the hell does it even mean to say it behaves like a pure wave? Its a combination of two seperate waves one electric the other magnetic. Light is an exitation or a disturbance in the electromagnetic field, it's a self propogating electromagnetic wave, its massless moves at speed c and doesent experience time , from the photons perspective its both created and destroyed simultaneously. If you held a magnet in your hand and waved it fast enough it would produce light. Dont know what else to say.

[@baraskparas9559]

Mass is mass and energy is energy and never the twain shall meet. Space is space and time is time and never the twain shall meet. A photon is a particle that travels in waves according to its mass. Collisions between photons peak at the peaks of the sin or spiral wave and thereby cause the induced magnetic component which is also photons. Power in a wire is photons travelling amongst the metal atoms in waves and beyond the wire in electricity inducing magnetic spirals interpreted as a circular magnetic field reducing in strength with distance from the wire. The mass of the neutrino has been underestimated terribly.

[@empatikokumalar8202]

Nereden baktığına bağlıdır. Işık tekil olarak kuant halindedir. Ama dalgalar şeklinde yayılırlar.

[@whirledpeas3477]

Newton was going for that Brian May look, or the other way around?

[@private_citizen]

Light is a wave that creates particals (photons) on collision.

[@gtrmusic69]

The whole looking into different cameras and then not looking into them doesn't work at all. Just use one camera and let the man look into it alone. Simple and it works!

[@ralphshorribleyoutubechannel]

Don Lincoln, I am not used to seeing you in a suit :)

[@SpotterVideo]

It cannot be either one... It must be something else. String Theory was not a waste of time. Geometry is the key to Math and Physics. What if we describe subatomic particles as spatial curvature, instead of trying to describe General Relativity as being mediated by particles? Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: "A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good." Ernest Rutherford The following is meant to be a generalized framework for an extension of Kaluza-Klein Theory. Does it agree with the “Twistor Theory” of Roger Penrose? During the early history of mankind, the twisting of fibers was used to produce thread, and this thread was used to produce fabrics. The twist of the thread is locked up within these fabrics. Is matter made up of twisted 3D-4D structures which store spatial curvature that we describe as “particles"? Are the twist cycles the "quanta" of Quantum Mechanics? When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. ( E=hf, More spatial curvature as the frequency increases = more Energy ). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are a part of the quarks. Quarks cannot exist without gluons, and vice-versa. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" are logically based on this concept. The Dirac “belt trick” also reveals the concept of twist in the ½ spin of subatomic particles. If each twist cycle is proportional to h, we have identified the source of Quantum Mechanics as a consequence twist cycle geometry. Modern physicists say the Strong Force is mediated by a constant exchange of Mesons. The diagrams produced by some modern physicists actually represent the Strong Force like a spring connecting the two quarks. Asymptotic Freedom acts like real springs. Their drawing is actually more correct than their theory and matches perfectly to what I am saying in this model. You cannot separate the Gluons from the Quarks because they are a part of the same thing. The Quarks are the places where the Gluons are entangled with each other. Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. The twist in the torus can either be Right-Hand or Left-Hand. Some twisted donuts can be larger than others, which can produce three different types of neutrinos. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity. If an electron has qualities of both a particle and a wave, it cannot be either one. It must be something else. Therefore, a "particle" is actually a structure which stores spatial curvature. Can an electron-positron pair (which are made up of opposite directions of twist) annihilate each other by unwinding into each other producing Gamma Ray photons? Does an electron travel through space like a threaded nut traveling down a threaded rod, with each twist cycle proportional to Planck’s Constant? Does it wind up on one end, while unwinding on the other end? Is this related to the Higgs field? Does this help explain the strange ½ spin of many subatomic particles? Does the 720 degree rotation of a 1/2 spin particle require at least one extra dimension? Alpha decay occurs when the two protons and two neutrons (which are bound together by entangled tubes), become un-entangled from the rest of the nucleons . Beta decay occurs when the tube of a down quark/gluon in a neutron becomes overtwisted and breaks producing a twisted torus (neutrino) and an up quark, and the ejected electron. The phenomenon of Supercoiling involving twist and writhe cycles may reveal how overtwisted quarks can produce these new particles. The conversion of twists into writhes, and vice-versa, is an interesting process. Gamma photons are produced when a tube unwinds producing electromagnetic waves. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Within this model a black hole could represent a quantum of gravity, because it is one cycle of spatial gravitational curvature. Therefore, instead of a graviton being a subatomic particle it could be considered to be a black hole. The overall gravitational attraction would be caused by a very tiny curvature imbalance within atoms. We know there is an unequal distribution of electrical charge within each atom because the positive charge is concentrated within the nucleus, even though the overall electrical charge of the atom is balanced by equal positive and negative charge. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In this model Alpha equals the compactification ratio within the twistor cone, which is approximately 1/137. 1= Hypertubule diameter at 4D interface 137= Cone’s larger end diameter at 3D interface where the photons are absorbed or emitted. The 4D twisted Hypertubule gets longer or shorter as twisting or untwisting occurs. (720 degrees per twist cycle.) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> How many neutrinos are left over from the Big Bang? They have a small mass, but they could be very large in number. Could this help explain Dark Matter? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Why did Paul Dirac use the twist in a belt to help explain particle spin? Is Dirac’s belt trick related to this model? Is the “Quantum” unit based on twist cycles?

[@tarmstrong9906]

This was a real mind minder back in the ole days. Still kinda of a mind minder today doe. Very fine and real proud Rebel Lilly understand doe.

[@skymooov132]

More space videos.

[@bloodyorphan]

You have to admit a Photon is more "Wave" than particle ;-) I am sure DrDon agrees with me! **M.B.Eringa**

[@user-lc8yc4cq5n]

It's a wavicle.

[@bloodyorphan]

@@user-lc8yc4cq5n Globbed space boiling on top of the Big Bang which is 12 Planck wide and the highest temperature in the known Universe ;-) Waving at us from "Down There"

[@LemarFrench]

Light is electro-magnetism?

[@bloodyorphan]

This one was proven @ CalTech 30 years ago !!!!! Creating Laser Interfered Matter - The Replicator After realising we can make hydrogen for virtually no cost , we arrive at the replicator .... You interfere multiple 50W and 100W lasers at a porous ceramic block, and aim the appropriate number of lasers at the center of said block through the side of the ceramic block (say 10cm^3), and wait for the laser velocity and heat to permeate the ceramic until the hydrogen is expressed. You can use this multiple laser approach for any gas, so eight *milliwatt-monitored one hundred watt lasers and eight *milliwatt-monitored 50W lasers for oxygen. This was a theory 30 years ago, It was experimentally proven by the LIGO prototype team 30 years ago. The experiment was discontinued due to the plutonium centrifuge pollution creating odd weight particle masses which were lethal and Americans' refusal to cease centrifuge operations despite pleas from the entire civilised and scientific world. Oxygen Weights:- Never make a "light" oxygen, it will sit in a life form or any oxygen system forever robbing it of the sink required to function in life, the equivalent of carbon-monoxide poisoning everywhere it goes forever!. For Heavier elements you interfere an appropriate neutron weight at the same point in the block, 300W lithium, 790W for Gold etc etc Point an H20 interference configuration above the elemental and you can "flush" the element out of the ceramic with water. Production rate is proportionate to the total laser interference aperture on the ceramic (i.e. 10 square cm laser beams aimed at a ceramic, will give you one liter of water per second, or ten seconds for a one centimeter interference area. :-)) How is this possible you ask ? , simple we already have the 1C^3 energy in the photon, we only need five of them to make an electron. The Room Temperature Photon Replicator 8-) *milliwatt-monitored: This means you monitor the wattage of the laser and it must be the target wattage down to .0000 Watts!!!! , You also need to monitor the interference surface for any photon output for the same reason, isolating any potentially misfired interference outputs for full testing and removal from our ecosystem completely (i.e fired into the sun**) , the real key to it is the special relativity of the ceramic, if a new particle is off weight/temp, the SR of the ceramic will allow any "spare" heat to migrate to the particle and correct it's weight as it passes through the ceramic structure so it finds equilibrium in it's specific weight/temp space. 1cm^3=1 Gram of replicated matter. (i.e. Expressed Gold would be less than 1cm^3 when expressed but would weigh 1 Gram.) (C) M.B.Eringa 1985~2021

[@sonarbangla8711]

Physicists did kill either, but quantum field refused to do so.

[@davidarundel6187]

Light is both particle , and wave simultaneously ,

[@markbyfield]

Both

[@rodkeh]

Light is always a particle that exhibits wave "behavior". One is the physical manifestation of light, the other is its behavior. There is no duality, particle and wave are two disparate things.

[@StreetHierarchy]

Maxwell? The Neo-Soul singer??

[@JimKrause1975]

I believe in Jesus and in science! Too each his own though. I respect everyone's beliefs. I wish people did not get so angry with each other over opposing views. Why can't more people just agree to disagree? If someone is nice and respectful to me and my loved ones they will get the same treatment from me no matter what they believe. We are all here for only a short time. We need people to put their pride aside and try to make getting along a higher priority. There are good people all over the world. They give me hope for humanity!

[@jonbold]

It's both.

[@SmithsMobile]

It's a wavicle.

[@jayrock4696]

Both💥

[@ryanmccormick7088]

Light is a particle within the realms or boundaries of a certain frequency. Light outside of these bouderies exist but can not be seen or sensed by human sensors.

[@nihlify]

aaaaaaaaa

[@ahzzz-realm]

A particle traveling in a spiral.

[@SmithsMobile]

Nope.

[@ahzzz-realm]

@@SmithsMobile why not? A stream of particles would explain the double slit results.

[@SmithsMobile]

@@ahzzz-realm light doesn't travel as a particle, it travels as a wave. When it interacts with something the entire wave collapses and is observed as a particle.

[@ahzzz-realm]

@@SmithsMobile by saying it travels as a spiral stream it means all possible directions a particle can take are taken which would produce the 2 slit results without a 'something interaction'. As the stream rotates it would appear to 'collapse' at the time of capture as it would be at 90 degrees to the observer.

[@SmithsMobile]

@@ahzzz-realm Think of it as a bubble getting bigger and bigger continually expanding , it can even expand through solid objects untill the very edge of the bubble interacts with or strikes something. Suddenly this colossal bubble instantly disappears and all its energy is adsorbed into that one tiny point of contact.

[@juderamnarine5617]

Meet the Buddha… the enlightened particle waving as it passes by. 🤣🤣

[@CatsPajamas23]

Light is not a particle.

[@Jaggerbush]

This is SO OLD

[@bloodyorphan]

Shame they don't actually teach General Realtivity in middle school, isn't it ?