As I write this, a number of weeks before you read it, the days are getting noticeably shorter, darkness coming on earlier, especially out here in the Berkshires, where the old hills swallow the light even before the sun sets.
Interesting then that one of our editors reading through the proofs of this issue said, “Hey, this is the issue of light!”
The nature of light has always befuddled me. How can it be both particle and wave? I’ve been trying to grasp that fundamental duality since I took Physics for Poets at the University of Michigan to satisfy the science requirement. It reminds me of that loopy novelty song from the 1950s you might remember: “Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople….”
This confusion is not new to…
