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YouTube Description: What happens when single photons of light pass through a double slit and are detected by a photomultiplier tube? In 1801 Thomas Young seemed to settle a long-running debate about... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 251 views • 6:00YouTube Description: Light is so common that we rarely think about what it really is. But just over two hundred years ago, a groundbreaking experiment answered the question that had occupied physicists... continue reading
posted by aaronfr 1 decade 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,437 views • 7:40YouTube Description: A huge crystal of calcite is used to demonstrate birefringence, a side-effect of light's refraction through certain materials. Featuring Professor Mike Merrifield.... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 8 months 1 week ago • 856 views • 6:55From YouTube: Please excuse the simple math and spelling errors. You shouldn't believe anything I say without double-checking even at the best of times.
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 5,481 views • 5:17Thomas Young is best known to us today for the double slit experiment that showed light behaves like a wave. He also did some important, if a bit "was he insane?!" experiments about how the eye works... ... continue reading
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