Following on from the previous post on wave-particle duality in ancient Egypt, what about this one.
Evidence of a Youngs slit experiment in the Dendera Temple of Hathor. The photo clearly illlustrates both the particle (triangles running down from the slit) and 'waves' (running up from slit and depicted as as ripples in a sea of stars).
Why is all this physics in the Temple of Hathor? Well clearly she was also a physicist - doing wave-particle duality experiments, being the personification of the Milky Way and the 'Lady of the Stars'.
Well this is all food for thought.
The Temple alone is phenominal and the artwork sublime but the level of language and story depiction is out of this world. Must be.....👽
I've just noticed something else of interest, thought this was going to be my final post on Ancient Egyptian physics, but I think there is something else......
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