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Dec 14, 2016 · It was Paul Adrien Dirac (1902–1982) who, in a seminal paper published in 1927, synthesized the wave and particle natures of light in a single theory. According to the Maxwell’s theory, the light consisted of electromagnetic waves of different frequencies. The oscillating waves could be looked upon as a sort of simple harmonic oscillators.
- M. Suhail Zubairy
- zubairy@tamu.edu
- 2016
Dec 14, 2016 · Alhazen proved the long held theory of Euclid, Hero, and Ptolemy that light originated from the eye to be wrong and showed that light originated from the light sources.
Newton proposed that light consists of little masses. This means that a horizontal beam of light near the earth is undergoing projectile motion, and forms a parabola. The straight line we observe is due to the fact that the speed of the particles is so great. In one microsecond, light travels 300 m.
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Jan 1, 2011 · With this idea, that light can be envisioned as a stream of minuscule corpuscles, Newton was at odds with his fellow countryman Robert Hooke and Dutch scientist Christian Huygens, who advocated the more vibrant, wave theory of light.
- Martin Beech
- martin.beech@uregina.ca
- 2012
With the coming of the Scientific Revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries, optics, in the shape of telescopes and microscopes, provided the means to study the universe from the very distant to the very small. Newton introduced a scientific study also of the nature of light itself.
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Richard Weiss leads us along these paths over the past 500 light years. The way is lit by pioneers such as Rembrandt, Einstein, D W Griffith, Newton, and Heisenberg. A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIGHT, AND THOSE THAT LIT THE WAY is a summer's day roller-coaster ride through five centuries of man's achievements in understanding and manipulating light ...
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We can divide the history of light into four distinct eras. The first era, with its center initially in Athens and then Alexandria, belonged to the Greeks. This era extended from about 800 BC till around 200 AD.
