Quantum Mechanics. Episode 4, Particles of Light, Waves of Matter.
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Benjamin Schumacher
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2009.
Light propagates through space as a wave, but it exchanges its energy in the form of particles. You learn how Louis de Broglie showed that this weird wave-particle duality also applies to matter, and how Max Born inferred that this relationship makes quantum mechanics inherently probabilistic.