Thomas Young
Historical profileEnglish physician and physicist·1773–1829
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Light added to light can make darkness. Hold a thin card in a narrow beam of light, and bright and dark stripes appear in its shadow; block the light passing one side of it, and they vanish. Waves can cancel each other out. Streams of particles can’t.