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Discovery and history of Light wavesIn the early 1800's experimentalists Michael Faraday, Augustin Fresnel and Thomas Young have discovered and shown beyond any doubt that so called light rays have actually the structure of waves.James Clerk Maxwell in the mid 1800's came up with the famous Maxwell's four equations that describe the phenomenon of light, called since electromagnetic waves. No duality wave/particle appears in Maxwell equations. |
The photoelectric effect and the invention of light particlesIn the late 1800's Henrich Hertz discovered the photoelectric effect.He discovered that an electric current made of electrons emanates out of a photoelectric material when the later is striken with light rays. Unfortunately Maxwell Equations do not explain the phenomenon. In 1905 Albert Einstein used the quantum of energy introduced in 1900 by Max Planck to explain the extraction of the electrons. Eisntein theorized that light rays are made of packets of energy, nowadays called photons, which through brute mechanical collisions knock real particles electrons off the photoelectric material. Later Compton allegedly proved experimentally that light is made of bullets like projectiles! |
Wave and particle are physically incompatibleWave and particle are incompatible in the physical world: all waves, not only light waves but also sound waves, have absolute speeds; all particles (but the photon!) have relative speeds.Nevertheless particle/wave duality of light is now a fact of life in the mathematics of physics. And physicists went even further, extending this duality to the mathematical representation of material particles! We can obviously mentally assert in our human mathematical world that wave and particle are one, even though that is non-sense in the physical world! We can obviously also witness experiments, which in some specific conditions, are proof of this duality in the real world... The fact of the matter is that such theoretical or mental incongruity is not required in Nature! There exist at least one, logical, much simpler explanation of the phenomenon, click: |
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Physicists relish mentioning that a theory is justified when it includes the previous theory. Because at slow speeds it includes Newton’s theory, the relativity theory, many claim, is no doubt true. Should we conclude that Einstein’s invention of the photon that is incompatible with Maxwell previous theory is not true? The answer is yes! And because incompatibility does not make sense, the photon is denied any physical existence in gravimotion. While mathematics plays exquisitely the role of reality, the Nature of reality is missing in that play.
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