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The Nature of Light
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In the early 20th century, the scientific community grappled with a profound contradiction. Light, previously understood as a continuous wave, began exhibiting behaviors that could only be explained if it were composed of discrete packets of energy.
These packets, later termed photons, introduced the concept of wave-particle duality. This shift fundamentally disrupted classical mechanics and laid the groundwork for modern quantum physics.
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