Page 27 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

In 1905, Albert Einstein
claimed that light possessed quanta,
or small packets of energy. These energy
packets were given the name photons. Although
described as particles, photons could be observed to behave
in the wave motion proposed by Maxwell in the 1860s.
Therefore, light was a transitional phenomenon between
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wave and particle —a state of affairs that displayed a ma-
jor contradiction in terms of Newtonian physics.
Immediately after Einstein, Max Planck, a German
physicist, investigated light and astonished the entire scientific
world by determining that it was both a wave and a particle.
According to this idea, which he proposed under the name of quan-
tum theory, energy was disseminated in the form of interrupted and
discrete packets, rather than being straight and constant.
In a quantum event, light exhibited both particle-like and
wave-like properties. The particle known as the photon was
accompanied by a wave in space. In other words, light

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