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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Proof that light is a particle and not a wave?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What if all particles are waves. They just temporarily form loops that we consider to have particle behaviour when observed on a larger scale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Great, Brian Greene's been drinking again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes, but also both. (a simple example follows)

Think of it like you being at work or home. If I check your house, either you're there, or you aren't. If you're there, you're at home, simple. If not at home, you're at work.

Same with your work: either you're there when I check - or you aren't, therefore at home.

But before I check either location (it's understood that you are only in 1 of those 2 places), you are effectively in both places, and neither place, all at once.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Then you are either at work or at home. But until I check, you are out getting tacos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Checkmate physicists