I’m now working on a new book. It is a Sci-Fi taking place in 1975, mostly at and around the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). It is a volume of three books in one. I’m done with the first draft of the first book of the three volume set. The premise of the book is that aliens from another time and place visit our planet for recreation and relaxation, where their consciousnesses inhabit “rental units” of humans in the…..
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…..