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The Original Double Slit Experiment

Veritasium · 2 min read

Light’s true nature—whether it behaves like particles or waves—gets pinned down by a deceptively simple setup: Thomas Young’s double-slit experiment....

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Why are Stars Star-Shaped?

minutephysics · 2 min read

Stars look like round, hot plasma balls in reality, yet people routinely sketch them with sharp points. The mismatch comes down to how light behaves...

DiffractionStarlike SmearOptical Apertures

Why Some Rainbows Turn White

minutephysics · 2 min read

Some rainbows turn white because the water droplets that create them are so tiny that diffraction smears the rainbow’s separated colors back...

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