Synopsis
Einstein argued that science needed to forget of light as a waveform and think of it more as a stream of bullet-like particles.
- Programme: The Secrets of Quantum Physics
- Episode: Einstein's Nightmare
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Physics
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