Newtons idea also describes what you measure when you throw individual photons at a detector. They deposit their energy in one single well defined point.
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Newtons idea also describes what you measure when you throw individual photons at a detector. They deposit their energy in one single well defined point.
What I mean to say is Newton's idea of corpuscular light had very less application to the whole of light phenomena.
However because of his reputation as a great scientist, the majority scientific community sticked to his idea for like a century.
The wave nature idea however at the very same time in history explained lot more than the corpuscular theory
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