Albert Einstein: Why Light is Quantum

Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein's Birthday! To celebrate, we'll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old.

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[jaws0222]

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[Unlyricallyrics]

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[Zero14811111]

Perhaps you could make it HourPhysics, none of your videos explain anything

[amassi2010]

about light ..Im really wondering what do they mean by saying that light is absolute .

and as they said even if you move in half of light speed .you will still see light in the same speed not slower ...I want to know why

[Boner Simpson]

that's not very nice

[nickharvey7]

Could the wave particle duality of the electromagnetic spectrum or light represent a process of continuous energy exchange that we see and feel as the flow of time?

Based on:

1 The quantum w-particle function Ψ forms the forward passage of time itself with the future coming into existence photon by photon.

2 Is that quantum uncertainty ∆×∆p×≥h/4π is the same uncertainty we have with any future event within our own ref-frame that we can interact with turning the possible into the actual!

[hippopatomustoaster]

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Nah, I'll just get kicked out of class, that is all. Oh, and all my stupid friends will laugh at me saying it is nonsense!

[TheCentralServices]

What exactly do you mean by energy distribution?

[fatchicken18]

Light has the same energy distribution as gas, it's not a 'gas'

[fatchicken18]

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