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What exactly is light?

>> No.7576995

>>7576992
>>7575590

>> No.7578334

my guess is energy that is moving so fast in a concentrated space that it generates a microscope amount of heat, witch in turn makes light rays

Or, it could be a form energy wavelengths that our eyes have evolved to pick up and understand, same with sound and smell, and there might even be forms of energy we don't even know exist because we cannot preserve them, nor have we invented machines that can

>> No.7578358

>>7578334
>my guess is energy that is moving so fast in a concentrated space that it generates a microscope amount of heat, witch in turn makes light rays
>Or, it could be a form energy wavelengths that our eyes have evolved to pick up and understand, same with sound and smell, and there might even be forms of energy we don't even know exist because we cannot preserve them, nor have we invented machines that can

Thanks, next time we need some more gibberish, we'll be sure to get back to you.

>> No.7578403

>>7576992
It's bright

>> No.7578497

energy in motion through space-time. a means of conveyance for information. what it "IS" is much less practical to know than what it "DOES".

>> No.7578516

>>7576992
4th dimensional aliens farting

>> No.7578526

>>7576992

>>7573555

>> No.7578698

>>7578334
pleasebetrollingpleasebetrollingpleasebetrollingpleasebetrollingpleasebetrollingpleasebetrolloingpleasebetrollingpleasebetrollingpleasebetrollingpleasebetrollingpleasebetrolling

>> No.7578729

Fundamental particles intimately connected to the electromagnetic interaction with some fun properties like zero mass, spin 1 (boson statistics), and a good example of interference phenomena. That should get you started on your Google quest!

>> No.7578833

>>7576992
Not yo momma.

>> No.7578860

>>7576992
nobody fucking knows and probably never will .
we do know how it behaves under many different conditions which is pretty interesting too .

>> No.7578898

Quantized excitations in a gauge field coupled to a fermionic field with local U(1) symmetry.

Or little suns with glasses and a briefcase that run around everywhere because they're late to work. Whatever floats your boat.

>> No.7578903

>>7576992
energy in the form of waves

>> No.7579103

>>7578903
It can be observed both as a wave and particle.This is mere observance we still don't know what it is.

>> No.7579105

>>7578334
>which in turn makes light rays

lol what?

>> No.7579153

>>7578898
>Whatever floats your boat.
...the second one it is then

>> No.7579157

>>7579103
It can actually only be observed as a particle. The wave characteristics only become apparent in the statistics of those.

>> No.7579162

I really can't remember why, but I once thought that light could be thought of as Lenz's Law being manifest without an actual electron being present.
Not sure why I thought that though...

>> No.7579348

>>7579157
kek.
>yeah this thing totally behaves like a wave, but you can only see a particle when looking at it
>yeah the sun is actually a giant pink rhinoceros but, it looks like a massive ball of gas whenever you're looking at it

>> No.7579901

I am here, on the Internet. Now.

I am in this thread in this moment of time.

I am LSD

>> No.7579912

>>7576992
A feather.
Hence the popular saying.

>> No.7579976

>>7579157
aren't you talking at a quantum level when you speak of observing waves as particles?

>> No.7579978

>>7579976
>talking at a quantum level
Could you speak up, please?

>> No.7579981

>>7579978
kek.

I apologize if it didn't really make sense.
I've been teaching myself a lot of this shit (at least trying to comprehend it).

He was speaking of the double slit, was he not?
Observing a wave that becomes a particle at the poiint of observation?

>> No.7579984

>>7579981
Nah, man. You were clear enough. I was just fuckin' with you.

>> No.7579994

>>7579984
Oh okay hah I get it now

>> No.7580056

>>7578334
It's like I'm really on /x/!

>> No.7580063

>>7576992
Massless waves/particles that double as bosons to exchange the electromagnetic force between particles.

>> No.7580075

>>7579901
>take acid
>shitpost on /sci/

what a time to be alive

>> No.7580097

A simple wave in aether.

Oh but there is no aether, regards Einstein.

I don't know. I really am for the aether theory but then again you should have trillions of particles to contain that wave.

>> No.7580111

Light is like, the electricity and the magnetism, but not separated.

Here's a question I can't find the answer to:
Was light the first thing to exist in the big bang?