Experimenter or Experiment?

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Assalamu Alailkum,

One day I was walking in the science building at school and I passed a research lab labeled: photochemistry and catalysis.

(I love how it is the photochemistry lab and the lights are almost never on.)

I was thinking about experiments that must be done in that lab. It must involve atomic behavior in the presence of light (photochemistry–>photo=light). So when results are taken by whatever was done with light and compounds, the conclusions must be made with assumptions about the known behavior of light. So in my mind, what would you make your conclusions based off of? Light as a particle or light as a wave? Looking at the results from either point of view can affect what conclusions you want to make. (more…)

Published in: on July 16, 2010 at 3:00 pm  Comments (2)  
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