First habitable exoplanet discovered?

Re:First habitable exoplanet discovered? by shazow on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @01:23AM (#2555376)

  This is also why particles traveling at c cannot possibly
  decay: no time passes for them. A photon is everywhere at
  once, from its own point if view.

That's a really great explanation. For the first time, I've been able to visualize how light can be both a particle and a wave. Thank you.

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Re:First habitable exoplanet discovered? by DavidSJ on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @03:16AM (#2555603)

Time dilation (special relativity) has nothing to do with wave-particle duality (quantum physics). The infinite time dilation of photons is due to their velocity, not their wave-like nature.

Furthermore, all particles (electrons, protons, quarks, etc.) have wave-particle duality just as much as photons do.

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Re:First habitable exoplanet discovered? by blots on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @05:59AM (#2555900)

Wave-particle duality is even observable with larger molecules: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.100404

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Re:First habitable exoplanet discovered? by shazow on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @02:38PM (#2557347)

Thanks for the correction. s/wave/continuous beam/.

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