Albert Einstein1905
Einstein explicitly contrasted spatially localized light quanta with a purely continuous wave description, creating a fundamental tension that later developed into wave-particle duality.
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Einstein explicitly contrasted spatially localized light quanta with a purely continuous wave description, creating a fundamental tension that later developed into wave-particle duality.
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