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What is light? Thomas Young’s double slit experiment begins with a tragicomic illustration Richard Feynman’s lament that “the enormous majority of people are woefully, pitifully, absolutely ignorant of the science of the world that they live in,” then moves on to illuminate the actual science of light, something that surrounds yet something we barely think about.

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2-26-2013
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