Through Two Doors At Once
Author: Anil Ananthaswamy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Some of the greatest scientific minds have grappled with this experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show that light behaves like a wave, and in doing so opposed Isaac Newton's view that light is made of particles. But then quantum mechanics was born and Albert Einstein showed that light comes in quanta, or particles. Einstein and Niels Bohr-two of the formidable founders of quantum mechanics-then debated over...