LYRICS
Is light a particle or a wave
How does it behave
In particular,
Is is partly particle
Yet, save part for wave?
In the light
I’m starting to see
Wave–particle duality
Gaining insight
Into light
Going to part ways
Catch a ride on the light ray
Going to ride the wave
Knave, crave the light and start the rave
“Turn of the 20th century and the paradigm shift”
Swift uplift
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — Em D Em7
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
Wave–particle duality is a theory that proposes that all matter exhibits the properties of not only particles, which have mass, but also waves, which transfer energy. A central concept of quantum mechanics, this duality addresses the inability of classical concepts like “particle” and “wave” to fully describe the behavior of quantum-scale objects. Standard interpretations of quantum mechanics explain this paradox as a fundamental property of the Universe, while alternative interpretations explain the duality as an emergent, second-order consequence of various limitations of the observer. This treatment focuses on explaining the behavior from the perspective of the widely used Copenhagen interpretation, in which wave–particle duality serves as one aspect of the concept of complementarity, that one can view phenomena in one way or in another, but not both simultaneously.
