Light's behavior seems counterintuitive. That is, until you figure out light is a wave. The way light behaves can seem very counterintuitive, and many physicists would agree with that, but once you ...

Shini introduces the idea of Quantum Mechanics and how it helps us understand light. What is light? That is something that has plagued scientists for centuries. It behaves light a wave... and a ...

An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than ...

For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through ...