I continue to mine the AT&T video archive.Β Here's a really wonderful 1961 film showing how particles really are waves also.Β Β The simplicity of the gear that the Bell Labs folks used to demonstrate this is really admirable.Β I would love to see the preceding film (the one that shows how light waves are really also particles).Β
As I have mentioned in the podcast and in blog posts, I have a lot of trouble picturing HOW 20 meter photons somehow fly off my antenna.Β Β I understand how EM WAVES are generated.Β But there doesn't seem to be any corresponding explanation for how the photons are generated.Β Β
This video looks at a related question:Β Β How BIG are the photons of visible light?Β Β I am not sure this is all correct (and neither, apparently, is the creator of this video) but it is very interesting.Β Β
This is a really wonderful video.Β I especially liked his presentation on the nature of the EM spectrum, and his use of the centimeter waves to demonstrate wave behaviour.Β Β The two slit experiment was very nice.Β Β Sir Lawrence's presentation on SWR was brilliant.Β Β
Still, you wonder how would all this be done if those waves of Sir Lawrence (and Young, Maxwell and Faraday) were considered to be the photons that they also really are?Β