100 - What is Light? A Journey from Ancient Philosophy to Quantum Physics
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100 - What is Light? A Journey from Ancient Philosophy to Quantum Physics

2026-08-24

Modern physics tells us a lot about light; that it's both a wave and a particle, and that it sets the speed limit of the universe, for example. But how did we come to understand light in this way?

In Dan's first solo episode, he takes us through theories of light through the ages, starting from the earliest accounts of ancient ideas and bringing us all the way to modern times. 

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