Christiaan Huygens

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The molecule that was also a wave

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Scicomm Christiaan Huygens classical mechanics diffraction grating double-slit experiment Ibn al-Haytham interferometer Isaac Newton laser diffraction matter-wave matter-wave interference oligoporphyrins Quantum mechanics Thomas Young wave-particle duality

According to the principles of quantum mechanics, you're a wave – just like light is both a particle and a wave. It's just that your wavelength is so small that your wave nature doesn't ma…