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Wave or Particle?
Year
2011
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
30m
Rating
TVPG
Publication Information
The Great Courses
Summary
In the 1920s physicists established that light and matter display both wave- and particle-like behavior. Probe the nature of this apparent contradiction and the meaning of Werner Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle, which introduces a fundamental indeterminacy into physics.