Photons Quotes

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules.

I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.

I had a difficult time getting my arms around Einstein's work, even when I was a physics major at one of the top universities in India.

The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

I am interested in the physicality of light itself.

Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

Light is something like raindrops each little lump of light is called a photon and if the light is all one color, all the "raindrops" are the same.

In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what we wanted it to do for other things, because again we've used light as people might be used, in the sense that we use it to light paintings. We use it to light so that we can read. We don't really pay much attention to the light itself. And so turning that and letting light and sound speak for itself is that you figure out these different relationships and rules.

I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it.

Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.