Re: GAUSS LAW

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

Just like people's personalities the same thing (maybe it isn't even the same
thing) may be a wave (like properties) or a particle (like props.) depending on
the circumstances (Compton or crystal diffractometer). Was I taught wrong??

Light is what the experiment tells us it is???

bc

P.s Nothing wrong with using the pencil word, as in pencil tracing?

Jim Green wrote:

> Ken,
>
> You could just say that in physics it is sometimes helpful to use
> an  artificial language because it sometimes paints a clearer picture --

cut --

> The truth is that no one has the foggiest idea of what light is -- we talk
> about photons when that idea is helpful and waves when that idea is helpful
> to solve problems.  But light is neither corpuscular or a wave -- although
> it acts like one or the other at times.
>
> > Is this a bad analogy? I try to avound the flow word and have rays
> > penetrate.....
> >
> > Ken Fox
> > AP/IB Physics Teacher
> > Smoky Hill High School
> > Aurora, CO
>
> Jim Green
> mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
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