A wave? A particle? Yes ... Lacking scientific instruments, they could probe the nature of light only with their inventive minds. "Light is the activity of what is transparent," was one of ...

Scientists have been unable to confirm the existence of time reflection due to the amount of energy required to create a temporal interface. Using an engineered metamaterial scientists in New York ...

Light is a type of electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the eye. It travels as a transverse wave. Unlike a sound waves, light waves do not need a medium to pass through, they can ...

In fact, in a lot of experiments light acts much more like a wave than like a particle. This wave nature produces some interesting effects. For example, if an electron traveling around a nucleus ...

Physicists from Imperial College London have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in quantum physics by reimagining the classic double-slit experiment—this time in the dimension of time.

Overcoming the resolution limit in a light microscope of around half a wavelength of light (about 250 nanometers) is one of the most significant developments in optics. Due to the wave nature of ...