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53: The Case Against Reality | Don Hoffman (classic + updated)

The After On Podcast

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How Light Acts Like a Wave

In a sense, these tennis balls are behaving very particle-like. Photons being the tiniest, indivisible units of light. Particles flying through two slits should behave like our tennis balls and create two clusters of dots that with photons we'd use photographic film or digital sensor to record where they land rather than you. But now, the photons suddenly start acting like particles, like tennis balls,. They immediately create the two shotgun patterns rather than the classic banded interference pattern. It's likeYou expected a mob of random people to act like individuals, but you got a North Korean stadium putting on a synchronized show.

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