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View an animation explaining how small things like electrons and protons can behave like particles and sometimes like waves

See a demonstration explaining the wave-particle duality of an electron

The discovery of light's wave-particle duality

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View an animation explaining how small things like electrons and protons can behave like particles and sometimes like waves

View an animation explaining how small things like electrons and protons can behave like particles and sometimes like waves

A lesson on how small things, like electrons and protons, can behave like both a...

Video: © MinutePhysics (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

See a demonstration explaining the wave-particle duality of an electron

See a demonstration explaining the wave-particle duality of an electron

A demonstration of the wave-particle duality of an electron.

Video: © MinutePhysics (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

The discovery of light's wave-particle duality

The discovery of light's wave-particle duality

Learn about Thomas Young's double-slit experiment that challenged Isaac Newton's...

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