A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...
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Is light a particle or a wave?

From the most distant stars in the sky to the screen in front of your face, light is everywhere. But the exact nature of ...
Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Hi Ishan! Thanks for your great question. Light can be described both as a wave and as a particle. There are two experiments in ...
We explore if there is a true connection between light and gravity. We know that gravity exerts its pull on light, and we have an explanation for why. Actually, we have multiple explanations that all ...
Classically, light can be thought of in two ways: either as a particle or a wave. But what is it really? Well, the ‘observer effect’ makes that question kind of difficult to answer. So before we get ...