Thomas Young

[Zinjanthropos]

The following wiki contains a quote about Thomas Young, 'the last man who knew everything'. Last night I watched Neil Degrasse-Tyson's show COSMOS. The subjects were reality, light, entanglement and dimensions. They could do away with the flying egg contraption Neil is supposedly flying. Good show, informative, especially to us laypersons. 

Focussed a lot on Thomas Young (late 18th-early 19th cent). This guy was amazing, everything from deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics to developing the double slit experiment. Why do these guys only come around once in a while? World could use a lot more of his kind. I just hope there isn't a couple of these dudes/gals languishing around some rice paddy or member of a suppressed people for reasons unknown. Or would a genius eventually get noticed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist)

[Ostronomos]

The following wiki contains a quote about Thomas Young, 'the last man who knew everything'. Last night I watched Neil Degrasse-Tyson's show COSMOS. The subjects were reality, light, entanglement and dimensions. They could do away with the flying egg contraption Neil is supposedly flying. Good show, informative, especially to us laypersons. 

Focussed a lot on Thomas Young (late 18th-early 19th cent). This guy was amazing, everything from deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics to developing the double slit experiment. Why do these guys only come around once in a while? World could use a lot more of his kind. I just hope there isn't a couple of these dudes/gals languishing around some rice paddy or member of a suppressed people for reasons unknown. Or would a genius eventually get noticed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist)

He was a devotee of Newton, who invented the laws of motion and laid the foundation for geometric optics. 

Thomas Young's creation of the experimental apparatus that confirmed that light was a wave was a significant historical departure from Newton's conclusion that light was a particle or as he called them "corpuscles". Newton rejected the wave concept on the grounds that it seemed inconsistent with his successful geometric approach to lenses and mirrors.

His experiment showed that when a single light beam was shone through two slits, each slit acted as a new source for the wave. And a series of dark and light bands appeared on the detection screen on the other side indicating constructive and destructive interference between waves.

The mysterious phenomenon known as wave-particle duality was later confirmed by a number of experiments at the turn of last century. Einsteinian was instrumental in showing that motion and gravity had relativistic effects on time. 

The wavefunction was a beast of scientific curiosity. As it could not be observed in experiment but only inferred by the constructive and destructive interference between electron and photonic dual slit experiments, it gained the reputation of being a purely quantum effect and thus gave birth to what has come to be known as Quantum Physics. Indeed, all matter possesses wave-like properties. However, the reason we do not observe wave-like characteristics on the macroscopic level is because the size of Planck's constant (per de Broglie wavelenght) makes the wavelength too small to be observed, due to the fact that the former is inversely proportional to the mass of the object in question.