Иностранный язык в профессиональной сфере (английский) (на основе научных подкастов)

43 8. Bohr’s atom fixes Rutherfords’s problem and explains why atoms emit only very specific colors of light. 9. Louis de Broglie, a French PhD student, pointed out that if light which everyone knew is a wave, behaves like a particle, maybe the electron which everyone knew is a particle, behaves like a wave. 10. Richard Feynman famously said that this doesn’t illustrate the central mystery of quantum mechanics. Task 6. Read the script. Write down collocations from the vocabu-lary (Task 2). The initial letters of the words are given as clues. One of the most (1) a...... facts in physics it this: everything in the uni-verse, from light to electrons to atoms, behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time. All of the weird stuff you might have heard about quantum physics, Schrodinger’s Cat, God playing dice, spooky action at a distance, all of it follows directly from the fact that everything has both (2) p..... and (3) w.....nature. This might sound crazy. If you look around, you’ll see waves in water and particles of rock, and they’re nothing alike. So why would you think to combine them? Physicists didn’t just decided to mash these things together out of nowhere. Rather, they were led to (4) d..... nature of the universe through a process of small steps, fitting together lots of bits of evidence, like pieces in a puzzle. The first person to seriously suggest the duel nature of light was Albert Einstein in 1905, but he was picking up an ear-lier idea from Max Planck. Planck explained the colors of light emitted by hot objects, like the filaments in a light bulb, but to do it, he needed a desperate trick: he said the object was made up of oscillators they could only (5) e..... light in discrete chunks, units of energy that depend on the frequency of the light. Planck was never really happy with this, but Einstein picked it up and ran with it. He applied Planck’s idea to light itself, saying that light, which eve-rybody knew was a wave, is really a st...