Huygens propose it in 1678 he defines the light
like a undulatory movement similar to the one of the sound , he was the first
explaning what are the laws of reflection and refraction.
He defines light
as a wave like movement that occurs with sound, at this time the theory didn`t
achive major impact because it was overshadowed by other theories proposed by
others philosophers at the same time who brought more attention like isaac
newton.
It pass more than 100 years for this theory to be known as good
for the experiments of the French physicist Auguste Jean Fresnel sobre la difracción y los del médico inglés Auguste
Jean Fresnel on diffraction and the English physician Thomas Young on the
phenomena of light interference . Young experimentally demonstrated the fact
that occurred in the corpuscular theory that the sum of two light sources may
produce less light than separately.
I really like the fact that light sometimes is percived as a wave, a particle or even both. You explain really well how it is percived when it is assumed as a wave.
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