The idea of light quanta contradicted the wave theory of light that followed naturally from James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic behavior and, more generally, the assumption of infinite divisibility of energy in physical systems.
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The idea of light quanta contradicts the wave theory of light that follows naturally from James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic behavior and, more generally, the assumption of infinite divisibility of energy in physical systems.
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In 1827, Hamilton presented a theory of a single function, now known as Hamilton's principal function, that brings together mechanics, optics, and mathematics, and which helped to establish the wave theory of light.
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An anomaly arose in the late 19th century involving a contradiction between the wave theory of light and measurements of the electromagnetic spectra that were being emitted by thermal radiators known as quanta.
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Laplace may have removed it from later editions because of the development of the wave theory of light; light which was then thought to be a massless wave, and therefore not influenced by gravity.
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Laplace withdrew his suggestion later, after a wave theory of light became firmly established as the model for light ( as has been explained, neither a particle or wave theory is fully correct ).
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Huygens is remembered especially for his wave theory of light, which he first communicated in 1678 to France's Royal Acad�mie des sciences and which he published in 1690 in his " Treatise on light ".
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By the year 1821, Fresnel was able to show via mathematical methods that polarisation could be explained by the wave theory of light and only if light was entirely transverse, with no longitudinal vibration whatsoever.
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His 1740s papers on optics helped ensure that the wave theory of light proposed by Christiaan Huygens would become the dominant mode of thought, at least until the development of the quantum theory of light.
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This concept was first famously theorized by Sim�on Poisson in order to disprove the wave theory of light, as he thought the existence of a bright spot at the center of the shadow to be nonsensical.
