Photograph of light as both a particle and wave(actu.epfl.ch)
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Photograph of light as both a particle and wave
http://actu.epfl.ch/news/the-first-ever-photograph-of-light-as-both-a-parti/
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I am trying to figure out if the image in the link is actually the resulting photograph. The reason I mention it is the published paper in Nature does not contain it: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150302/ncomms7407/full/nco...
It also seems to not be light, but something similar.
It also seems to not be light, but something similar.
The camera has be the interesting part.
Photons are bosons, thus they don't interact, right? So you can't bounce light off of light to photograph it?
Edit: Okay, so I was being pedantic.
Anyway, if the wave is propagating through a wire, and waves have duration, then aren't you really capturing a picture of a wire propagating an old wave, and a new set of photons acting as particles?
That's like taking a picture of a boiling pot of water and saying you got a picture of water simultaneously as a liquid and a gas, because there is liquid water in the pot and steam rising off of it.