The God Particle and Other Mysteries
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The most elegant experiment in the history of physics: Part II
The Saga of the Nature of light The photoelectric effect is a versatile educational tool which may be harnessed to demonstrate the capability of the scientific method to discover new unexpected features in Nature. It reveals at the same time that Science has still unanswered fundamental questions, in particular, regarding the wave-particle dual nature of…
The foundations of our modern vision of the world: an outline
The modern scientific revolution was initiated, less then than 500 years ago by a few “natural philosophers” who dared to challenge the existing dogmatic order that represented knowledge as a repetition of received wisdom and blind reliance on ancient authorities. The “New Philosophy” , as Kepler called it, promoted critical rethinking and radical revision of older premises…
The most elegant experiment in the history of physics
Part I-The experiment that changed the world as we knew it! The photoelectric effect is the key experiment that initiated the quantum mechanical revolution. The theory of Quantum Mechanics is today at the heart of our modern scientific model of Reality. It is also the instigator of all the technological wizardry that pervades our modern society.…
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