Einstein was wrong and Bohr was right. (Light can have either particle or wave form, but those forms cannot exist in the same time)

 

Einstein was wrong and Bohr was right. (Light can have either particle or wave form, but those forms cannot exist in the same time)

“Schematic of the MIT experiment: Two single atoms floating in a vacuum chamber are illuminated by a laser beam and act as the two slits. The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a highly sensitive camera depicted as a screen. Incoherent light appears as background and implies that the photon has acted as a particle passing only through one slit. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers.” (ScitechDaily, MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Most Famous Quantum Experiment)

“MIT physicists have performed the most precise version of the famous double-slit experiment, using ultracold atoms and single photons to reveal the strange dual nature of light as both wave and particle.” (ScitechDaily, MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Most Famous Quantum Experiment)

“This quantum balancing act—long debated by Einstein and Bohr—was tested without traditional “spring” components, instead relying on atomic “fuzziness” to confirm Bohr’s view: you can’t observe both properties at once. The experiment not only showcases the subtleties of quantum mechanics but also revisits and resolves a historic scientific rivalry.” (ScitechDaily, MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Most Famous Quantum Experiment)

MIT proved to be one of the most interesting quantum problems. We cannot observe light as both particles and waves simultaneously. We can see light as particles or waves, but it’s impossible to see those things at the same time. That thing is very interesting if we want to create things like a quantum internet where photons transport data. The photon can act as a particle, and it can also have a wave movement form. But those two positions cannot exist in the same photon, or light quantum, at the same time. An observer can see photon particles and waves at the same time, but those waves and photons are separated, independent light quantum. 

The test is called a double-slit experiment, used to prove that light has particle and wave forms. In 1801, British scientist Thomas Young proved that light has a dual identity. The photon can be a particle or it can have a wave form. But those things are always separated. So a photon is either a particle or a wave. But those forms cannot exist at the same time in the same photon. We can introduce photons as light quanta. That means a photon can stretch to a wave or it can wrinkle to a particle. When a photon stretches, that means the photon turns flat. The stretched photon is the thing that we can see as wave movement. 

“Nearly a century ago, the experiment was at the center of a friendly debate between physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. In 1927, Einstein argued that a photon particle should pass through just one of the two slits and, in the process, generate a slight force on that slit, like a bird rustling a leaf as it flies by. He proposed that one could detect such a force while also observing an interference pattern, thereby catching light’s particle and wave nature at the same time. In response, Bohr applied the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle and showed that the detection of the photon’s path would wash out the interference pattern.” (ScitechDaily, MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Most Famous Quantum Experiment)

Einstein defended his idea of light to Niels Bohr. Einstein’s model was that the photon can have wave and particle forms at the same time. Bohr's model was that the photon can have either a particle or a wave form. And as we know, Bohr was right. The knowledge of how photons act can be key to fundamental internet and data transportation models. The system that could input data into the waves and then wrap those waves into photons can open new paths to ultra-secure data transmission. When a photon arrives at the receiver, that thing can open the package and read data from that package. 

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