In “What is Light?”, we described light as both a wave and a particle under the conditions of the wave-particle duality. In the previous posts, we have mostly modeled light as a ray when discussing ...

Read the full blog post here: https://www.shanghai-optics.com/lesson-11-fringes-and-interferometers. We left off in the previous post using water waves to represent ...

It wasn’t all that long ago — Sept. 19, 2019, to be exact — that 76ers managing partner Josh Harris was asked to compare his private equity holdings and his pro sports endeavors. “We always tell the ...

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