Journal of Qingdao University

FROM "EITHER THIS OR THAT" TO "BOTH THIS AND THAT"——ON "THOUGHT OF DOUBLE-FACED GOD" IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICS

Jiamin Liu

Published Jan 1, 2000• 0 citations

Abstract

This article deals with the wave particle duality of light and the procedure of formation and development of De Broglie wave. It delineates the thought model from either this or that to both this and that in the development of physics-the application and feature of double-faced God.

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