Monthly Archives: April 2018
Ineffability and the Ineffable The Party Line By Dennis D. Gagnon It appears that using words To convey an experience of that preceding words is futility at its best. Thus a poem, Being the quintessentially literate intercourse, is doomed to failure in transmission of the fundamental aesthetic. Though it is experienced In a most immediate and constant manner, One cannot describe the preexistent reality From which we all proceed. In coming before words, It is Non-Being. From…..
THE PARTY LINE By Dennis D. Gagnon Is Light a Particle? Some say light is a wave. Some say it is composed of individual particles. Some say it is both. In this post we will look at the logical structure of the historical argument for light being a particle as put forward by Albert Einstein as based upon the photoelectric effect. (My last blog, published yesterday, looked at the historical argument from Thomas Young that light is a wave, as…..
THE PARTY LINE By Dennis D. Gagnon Is Light a Wave? Some say light is a wave. Some say it is composed of individual particles. Some say it is both. In this post we will look at the logical structure of the historical argument for light being a wave as put forward by Thomas Young based upon his Split-Beam experiment. A passage from my book, The Party Line, discussing Young’s experiment is: “Young took a beam of light passing through…..
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