Timeline for About wave and corpuscle theories of radiation
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| Apr 14, 2021 at 16:48 | comment | added | J Thomas | @G.Smith But there's obviously no way that a wave could provide a single quantum of energy to an atom. High-frequency light at low intensity would take a long time to charge up an atom. All the energy has to come from the light, it can't be that a few atoms are mostly charged up and just need a little push. So a wave just can't do it. It has to be big packets of energy that show up in one place. But I don't know the equations. Done right, it would be QM, correct? | |
| Apr 14, 2021 at 16:43 | comment | added | J Thomas | @G.Smith I have no idea. Newton explained rules for light corpuscles traveling through space. They travel in straight lines. They bounce off mirrors at equal angles. Etc. It mostly worked but it didn't explain diffraction, particularly the double-slit experiment, etc. | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 21:03 | answer | added | R. Romero | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 20:35 | comment | added | G. Smith | Are there examples where particle theory incorrectly predicts how light interacts with matter? What are the equations of “particle theory” and what do they predict for the photon/electron scattering differential cross section? | |
| Apr 13, 2021 at 19:17 | history | asked | J Thomas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |