Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Science For Canines
From: Mike Quinn <mlquinn@san.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 21:18:51 -0700

Or Photons. I think they behave like themselves. Light is light. We're the
ones who insist on trying to describe it as a particle or a wave. Light is
more interesting than particles and waves, and doesn't fit either model very
well.  

Mike Quinn

John Collier wrote:

> It will seem to behave like one or the other but not both. The theory being
> that it exists as both until observed. A year or so ago they managed to
> observe an electron in both states simultaneously though the details escape
> me now....then too.  :-)
> 
> John Collier
> 
>> From: Harrison Mcclary <harrison@mcclary.net>
>> 
>> Kinda like how an electron behaves as a particle only when being observed
>> and like a wave when not being observed?