Suppose a bunch of insane basketball players all get together and decide to play a game. But crazy old Smitty forgot to bring the basketball, so they just decide to pretend that there is a ball. They pretend to dribble, pass, and shoot the ball as if it were really there. Someone watching the game might postulate the existance of a ball to explain the motions of the players and to describe the rules of the basketball game. Is light like the imaginary basketball? Is it just something we make up to describe the phenomena that we observe in nature? Is that why we can say that light sometimes behaves like a wave and sometimes like a particle? Any thoughts about this?
2006-12-18
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