What Feynman Discovered About Light That NO ONE Can Explain

Here's something that will break your brain: shine light at a piece of glass, and exactly 4 out of every 100 photons bounce back. The other 96 pass through.

Simple enough, right? But here's the mystery - how does each photon "decide" whether to reflect or pass through? They're all identical.

They hit at the same angle. Yet some bounce, some don't.

It gets weirder. Add a second surface (thin glass), and suddenly reflection can drop to ZERO or jump to 16% - depending only on thickness. The same light, the same glass, wildly different results.

The explanation? Light doesn't choose one path. It takes EVERY path simultaneously. Every possible route, all at once. The paths that "agree" reinforce each other. The paths that "disagree" cancel out.

This isn't science fiction. This is Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) - the most precisely tested theory in human history. Accurate to 12 decimal places. Like measuring the distance from LA to New York down to the width of a human hair.

And the craziest part? No one can explain WHY nature works this way. We can calculate it perfectly. We just can't understand it.

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