LIGHT: Particle or Wave??

     Light, a kind of wave that exist all over the world. In recent years everyone knows that light is a genre of wave, but how did people in ancient years thought about light?  Wave or Particle?

     Robert Hooke, one of the fellows of the Royal Society, published a book called “Micrographia” which supported that light is a kind of wave in 1665. A few years past, Isaac Newton, the one that you know, wrote a letter to the Royal Society. In the letter, Newton thought that light is particle. However, Newton was still a nobody in 1672 so Hooke make a negative comment on Newton’s letter by tart words. You know that Newton is so narrow-minded, Newton was so angry about Hooke’s comment. From then on, Newton saw Hooke as a rival in his lifetime.

     But, what happen next? Newton became stronger and stronger, therefore, the public approbated that light was particle. At that time, Newton’s main rival was Christiaan Huygens, who followed the thought of Hooke. Huygens usually gave a great treatise of light is a kind of wave. But Huygens didn’t win the heart of the public back, because Newton was too incredible in physic. How incredible? Everyone knew Newton when they were three cause an apple hit on Newton’s head.

     Here is some extra story about Newton. After Hooke passed away Newton became the chairman of the Royal Society. Someone says that the reason why there’s no even one picture of Hooke left is because Newton destroyed all of Hooke’s picture with his power of chairman. Frankly speaking, It’s quite a thing that Newton would done.

picture of Robert Hooke(Disputed)
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