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A particularly wavy matter

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Chapters

  • 0:00-1:36 Introduction
  • 1:36-8:08 How to be like a wave
  • 8:08-16:05 Wave-particle duality
  • 16:05-23:20 Waves in the LHC

 

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We created this video for high-school students as a target audience. Therefore, we are using simplified explanations in some situations to make the content more accessible. If you want to dive deeper, you can take a look at the supplementary resources below.

External works referenced in this video: 
  • [1] Radiofrequency cavity photograph by Matteo Monzali.
Sources and materials to go further: 
  • [1] Étienne Klein – Petit voyage dans le monde des quanta.
  • [2] Natural History Museum – The platypus puzzle.
  • [3] Philip Ball – Beyond Weird.
  • [4] France Culture – Louis de Broglie : électron libre de la physique quantique.
  • [5] Home.cern – Accelerating: Radiofrequency cavities.