How We Look at Light Can Affect the Atom that Emits It (VIDEO)

Washington University in St. Louis

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In spontaneous emission, wave detection gives you more information than particle detection, as physicist Kater Murch of Washington University in St. Louis explains in this animation he drew and narrated.

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