A wave or A particle ?…
A radiation or A matter ?…
Vacuum or aether ?…
Nothing or Everything ?…
Complication or An Illusion ?…
Ever wondered, What if there wouldn’t be any light ??
God would be deliberately displeased after being acquainted with the fact that all the efforts in fabricating the precious “EYE” went in vein…
In fact, Neither of us could’ve ever been able to comprehend the universe without the existence of Light.
Speaking of light, let us initiate by considering a broad zoomed out perspective of this phenomena that how much it has been redefined till this date;
Before early 1900s, light was widely accepted to behave as “Wave” according to Classical Newtonian mechanics. Even diffraction, interference & polarisation related phenomenons were satisfactorily described by this wave type nature of light upto certain macroscopic extent. Then James Maxwell reconstructed the notion of Light to be an “Electromagnetic Wave“.
The direction of propagation of this EM wave is perpendicular to both Electric field and Magnetic field.
While the 19th century had seen the success of the Wave Theory at describing light, It had also witnessed the rise of the “Quantum Theory” at describing matter at microscopic level.
to be continued 🙂
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