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Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [February 5, 2021]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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What's Happening at Amah, Okay?

There's a different view of how light works, which is not in terms of photons, particles of light, but instead in terms of waves. In that picture, what's going on is, it's as if we had little, sort of particles of light that come from the screen and hit our eye. We can think of light instead as a wave, where, instead of there being a photon that is like this particle of light coming from the pixale, instead, the pi is generating this wave that's coming out of the pickle at's That's continually m being an Electroc magnetic fields variation. It's that continuous variation, and that's a sort of a wave that

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