Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The hypothetical faster-than-light particle known as the tachyon may marry with the special theory of relativity, according to a team of physicists, making its existence ...

The interference nature of light, which was confirmed by experiments and calculations performed by Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827), dealt quite a blow to particle theory enthusiasts.

The first paper described his particle theory of light, which became one of the foundations of modern physics. Just as popular legend has it, Einstein really was a patent office clerk when he ...

Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that ...

It isn’t light as a particle. However, light is still pretty weird. There is a quantum nature to the electric and magnetic fields in light (quantum theory of radiation). But most of the stuff ...

According to quantum mechanics, the physics theory that describes the zoo ... De Broglie was inspired by the discovery of wave-particle duality in light. For centuries, physicists had debated ...

In contrast, quantum mechanics theory suggests that light particles continue interacting ... which-path observation (of a particle through the double slit) can be so gentle as to not exert a ...

According to measurements of pulsing stars scattered throughout the Milky Way and mystery radio signals from other galaxies, a particle of light ... Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, probably ...