The nature and spread of light have attracted people's attention very early. The ancient Greek philosophers put forward the idea that the sun and all other light and heating objects emit tiny particles that evoke the feeling of light and heat, and in the seventeenth century there were two different theories about the nature of light. One is the particle of light that Newton claims, a particle that is thought to be emitted from a light-emitting body and travels toward space at a certain speed. The other is the wave of light advocated by Huygens, which considers light to be a fluctuation in the media. Particles can explain the reflection and refraction of light, but in explaining the refractive phenomenon of light entering the water from air, the particle says that the speed of light in the water is greater than the speed of light in the air, while the the conclusion of the fluctuating is that the speed of light in the water is less than the speed of light in the air. At that time, people could not accurately use experimental methods to determine the speed of light, so it was not possible to judge the merits of these two theories according to the refractive phenomenon. Beginning at the end of the nineteenth century, in order to explain a series of newly discovered phenomena (such as the photoelectric effect, etc.), it is necessary to assume that light is a stream of particles thicked by particles with a certain mass, energy, and momentum, called photons. The above assumptions were made by Einstein in 1905, known as the photon hypothesis. The coexistence of light and particles is called the diphonability of light. In the 1930s, the second-like nature of real and physical particles was discovered. The duality of waves and particles is the basis of modern physics.
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