What if we looked at the light as a single particle? A team of Brazilian scientists believes we have been misunderstanding physics all this time. They created a mathematical model and… “it was hell.”
For a long time it was thought that the duo’s experience confirmed that the light can be a wave. Now, physicists believe this is not quite like that.
A new and considered by many radical interpretation calls into question the results of this famous experience and, in fact, the very nature of light.
According to Brazilian scientist Celso Villas-Boas, it is not necessary to think of light as a wave to explain the results of the duo’s experience-in this case, Light can be seen as fundamentally only one particle.
It is, of course, a break with the last 100 years of physics, which radically changes what we found to know about the universe. But everything is still open.
Only there has been advances: the team has just published one in Physical Review Letters where it describes an experience of a mathematical model which used a single atom as a screen.
In the end, your calculations suggest that the pattern can arise only by CAnside the light as a quantum particle. This is because, in some places, the photons that cross the cracks take on “dark states”, in which they cannot interact with other particles and do not illuminate the screen.
This is “a clear proof that we have a wave aspect of the field of light. But according to our explanation, we only need the particle aspect of light, ”says the scientist.
“I consider this perspective extremely intriguing. Although it can certainly continue to interpret interference phenomena involving classic fields and unique waves that cancel and reinforce each other, this new approach seems to offer one most complete and coherent frame -Based only on the Nature of Particle of Light, ”says Marco Bellini, researcher at the National Institute of Optics in Italy.
“This was a shocking experience. Somehow, There are photons everywhere, but in dark regions they can’t excite the atom“Says Gerhard Rempe, a member of the Max Planck Institute team of Quantum Optics in Germany.“ This has destroyed many of our knowledge about the functioning of classic interference. It was a hell“.
