New research confirms that a photon's wave and particle nature can't be fully observed simultaneously due to entropic uncertainty.
The researchers found that a photon’s movement influences how much information it reveals, with circular motion being more informative than oscillation.With the help of a new experiment, researchers at Linköping University, among others, have succeeded in confirming a ten-year-old theoretical study.In 1920, Danish physicist Niels Bohr proposed that although light has a dual nature, behaving as both particle and wave, it’s impossible to observe this duality at the same time.
Depending on how this second beam splitter is configured, the photons are measured as either waves or particles. However, the study authors did a clever thing to their set-up and attempted to measure the dual nature of photons. This experiment shows that no matter how much you try, you can never fully observe the dual nature of adouble-slit experiment
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