{"id":161507,"date":"2023-04-04T00:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T05:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/recreating-the-double-slit-experiment-that-proved-the-wave-nature-of-light-in-time-instead-of-space"},"modified":"2023-04-04T00:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T05:22:38","slug":"recreating-the-double-slit-experiment-that-proved-the-wave-nature-of-light-in-time-instead-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/recreating-the-double-slit-experiment-that-proved-the-wave-nature-of-light-in-time-instead-of-space","title":{"rendered":"Recreating the double-slit experiment that proved the wave nature of light in time, instead of space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/recreating-the-double-slit-experiment-that-proved-the-wave-nature-of-light-in-time-instead-of-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imperial physicists have recreated the famous double-slit experiment, which showed light behaving as particles and a wave, in time rather than space.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment relies on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a> that can change their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical properties<\/a> in fractions of a second, which could be used in new technologies or to explore fundamental questions in physics.<\/p>\n<p>The original <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/double-slit+experiment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">double-slit experiment<\/a>, performed in 1,801 by Thomas Young at the Royal Institution, showed that light acts as a wave. Further experiments, however, showed that light actually behaves as both a wave and as particles\u2014revealing its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+nature\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperial physicists have recreated the famous double-slit experiment, which showed light behaving as particles and a wave, in time rather than space. The experiment relies on materials that can change their optical properties in fractions of a second, which could be used in new technologies or to explore fundamental questions in physics. The original double-slit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}