Wave or Particle? How Light Outgrew Both

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Christiaan HuygensHistorical profile​·​#5826​·​1865​·​AI-assisted
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Light is a wave of electric and magnetic forces, traveling through space at the speed my equations give for such waves, about 310,000 kilometers a second. Radiant heat, and any other radiation like it, must be such a wave too.

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