A great leap forward
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Without quantum theory we wouldn't have computers or nuclear power.
And yet no scientist has ever proved it to be true - until now. Marcus
Chown reports

06 October 2004


What if one of the most deep-seated ideas in science was wrong? What
if an edict propounded by one of the towering figures of 20th-century
physics and unchallenged for nearly 80 years turned out to be
incorrect? And what if this was no mere conjecture by some crackpot,
but the unequivocal ruling of a reproducible experiment?

Enter Shahriar S Afshar, a 33-year-old Iranian-American physicist.
Afshar has tested the foundations of quantum theory, our most
successful description of the reality that underpins the everyday
world. According to quantum theory, the basic building blocks of our
world such as atoms can behave both as particles - like tiny bullets -
and waves - like ripples on a pond. This bizarre behaviour turns out
to be at the root of a multitude of quantum phenomena which have made
the modern world possible, given us everything from computers and
lasers to nuclear reactors.

Marcus Chown
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