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Light- Central to both Science & Religion

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Channel: Safiyyah Sabreen Syeed · 2018 · Education

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Let there be light !
Lets start from the very beginning. Quantum Mechanics was a desperate attempt
to make sense of the anomalous and strange behavior of Light. So it starts with
Light. Which to me is fascinating, as I know the centralilty and importance of Light
in the Quran and Islamic literature. You have light playing a central role in Einstien’s
relativity and now the Quantum revolution that was forced on us by Light. Previously
it was Newton who said that Light consists of tiny particles. Then in the 1800’s it
was demonstated that it was a wave by Thomas Young. Finally by 1905 it was
concluded it had a dual nature, it acted as both a wave and a particle. What is a
wave? Something which is spread out and can be in multiple locations all at the
same time. A particle is object like confined in a small space. To have these two
opposing natures at the same time is called the wave/particle duality. This to me as
a Muslim is fascinating because Allah says in the Quran; Wa min kulli shayin
khalaqna zawjain. Everything has been created in duals or pairs.. And dualities will
show up all through the scientific literature. So the universe consists of matter and
radiation, again a pair and one of them is internally dualistic. So the question was
what if matter also has this dual nature? The answer to that would shake the very
foundations of Modern Science.

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