Superpositionsprinzip

Physik

Basiswissen

Fußnoten

• [1] Superposition von Licht: Huygens schließt umherfliegende Teilchen des Lichts aus, das sich Licht aus verschiedenen Richtungen selbst bei einer Überkreuzung nicht gegenseitig stört: "Further, when one considers the extreme speed with which light spreads on every side, and how, when it comes from different regions, even from those directly opposite, the rays traverse one another without hindrance, one may well understand that when we see a luminous object, it cannot be by any transport of matter coming to us from this object, in the way in which a shot or an arrow traverses the air; for assuredly that would too greatly impugn these two properties of light, especially the second of them. It is then in some other way that light spreads; and that which can lead us to comprehend it is the knowledge which we have of the spreading of Sound in the air." In: TREATISE ON LIGHT In which are explained The causes of that which occurs In REFLEXION, & in REFRACTION And particularly In the strange REFRACTION OF ICELAND CRYSTAL. By CHRISTIAAN HUYGENS. Rendered into English By SILVANUS P. THOMPSON. Dort die Seite 4. Im Französischen Original: Traite de la Lumiere. 1690. Dort die Seiten 3 und 4.