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John of the Rhine is based on a real scientific experiment
This week, I’m promoting an e-short-story, “John of the Rhine,” that’s free on Amazon here.
Parts of this short story are based on real life. (Not the part about a piece of river mud coming alive.) But Mr. Kaufman’s research is based on a real experiment that was done by Thomas Young in the early 1800’s. At the time, scientists couldn’t agree whether light was a wave or a particle. In 1803, Young did an experiment where he forced light to split by passing it through a card with two pinholes in it, like so:
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When the light came back together, the two beams either added to each other or destroyed each other, which is something that only waves do. Everybody believed that the matter was settled, that light was only a wave, for about a hundred years. Then a more sophisticated version of the experiment found that light behaves like a particle, too.
So is light a wave or a particle? Yes.
Free Ebook: John of the Rhine
Hello, everyone! I wanted to let you know that I have some new writing out, and just for this week, it’s free.
“John of the Rhine” is a longish short story about a golem who works as an assistant to an alchemist. In his spare time, John teaches himself how to cook.
Here’s where you can get your free copy on Amazon.
Don’t have a Kindle device? There’s a couple of things you can do. You can download a free program from Amazon that will let you read the file on your mac or PC. Or, wait a couple of months. To do this promotion, I agreed to put “John of the Rhine” only on Amazon for 90 days. When the 90 days are up, I’ll put it on Smashwords as well, where it’ll be available in just about every file format imaginable.
Come and get it!