The Quantum Revolution
The Initial Paradigm: Classical Physics
- All motion is continuous; any energy is possible for particles or waves
- Particles and waves are completely different
The anomaly (crisis) for classical physics: Radiation from Hot bodies; Properties of atoms
Normal response
- Completely puzzling
- Try to explain the experiment as some anomaly of matter
Extraordinary Response (Revolution)
- Many people pointed the way: Planck, Einstein, Bohr
- de Broglie made the giant step: Particles act like waves!
- Schrodinger and Heisenberg showed that our ideas of determinism have to be completely revised, …..