How light is detected affects the atom that emits it

Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 16:40 in Physics & Chemistry

Flick a switch on a dark winter day and your office is flooded with bright light, one of many everyday miracles to which we are all usually oblivious. A physicist would probably describe what is happening in terms of the particle nature of light. An atom or molecule in the fluorescent tube that is in […]

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