Occasionally, science museums can stimulate new science. Inspired by an exhibit on an optical experiment performed by Isaac Newton, physicists have taken the first X-ray snapshot of a microscopic ...

The double-slit experiment is one of the most famous experiments in physics and definitely one of the weirdest. It demonstrates that matter and energy (such as light) can exhibit both wave and ...

Twenty-odd years before Newton stated the three laws of motion, he conducted a simple, breakthrough prism experiment. He poked a hole through his window shade, allowing a single beam of light to shine ...

Quantum physics is the realm of the strange. And one of the strangest discoveries in the field is also one of the most fundamental: Particles fired at barriers with two slits in them can act like ...

Have you ever noticed the colors of the rainbow or the colors that sometimes appear on the wall when light passes through a glass of water? In 1666, Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) conducted a series of ...

IN NATURE of October 24 (vol. Ixxvi., p. 637) Mr. Edser asks whether anyone has tried the experiment of Lloyd's single mirror fringes with polarised light to see whether a change of the character of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this essay, I take up both Shapiro's and Hakfoort's suggestion that Newton tried to apply the same method he used in the Principia (first ...