The 19th-Century Analogy That Helped Lay the Foundations of Quantum Physics
A Bold Parallel Emerges in Early Optics (Image Credits: Unsplash) Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton forged a mathematical connection in the 1830s between light propagation and particle motion that later illuminated the foundations of quantum physics.[1][2] A Bold Parallel Emerges in Early Optics Picture light rays bending through lenses much like cannonballs arcing through the ...












