Scientists have finally performed a famous experiment described by physicist Richard Feynman that captures the mysterious quantum properties that allow electrons to behave like either waves or particles.
The findings, published Wednesday (March 13) in the New Journal of Physics, don't upend any fundamental laws, but confirm the results of a classic double-slit experiment once thought too challenging to perform.
"It confirms quantum mechanics," said study co-author Herman Batelaan, a physicist at the University of Nebraska. "We all know it's supposed to work that way, but to actually go out there and do it is a valuable thing."
From 1961 to 1963, Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman gave a series of electrifying lectures on quantum mechanics, revealing the strange laws that govern the world of the very small.
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