Newton conducted the most amazing experiments on light including sticking a needle into his own eyeball to see if it would affect his perception of light or colours! Einstein famously said, “imagine you’re riding on a beam of light.
The 17th century Isaac Newton was famous for its series of gravity, deduced by watching the fall of an apple from the tree. The iconic 20th century Einstein known for his theories of relativity.
300 years ago the world physicist was unknown however wealthy gentlemen were fascinated by experimentation in science. Newton conducted the most amazing experiments on light including sticking a needle into his own eyeball to see if it would affect his perception of light or colours!
Einstein famously said, “imagine you’re riding on a beam of light.” cosmology was born with General Relativity, which was later proven by English physicist Eddington during the 1909 solar eclipse, proving that light did bend In space . Before ideas of quantum physics or quantum biology, he is however known as ‘The Father Of Quantum mechanics’ as his work lead to discovering more about light photons and the quantum light world.
Less well-known is the fact that Einstein received his Nobel Prize for his light work, discovering the photoelectric effect.
The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons or other free carriers when light hits a material. simply, hat different colours of light actually have different energies according to their frequencies. Study of the photoelectric effect led to important steps in understanding the quantum nature of light and electrons, and the concept of light propagating in space in packets of photons.
Newton, in between dabbling in occultism and numerology but before his famous gravity experiment, was also interested by light.
The prevailing theory at this time was that liked took on the colour of the substance it went through, such as the sun been going through a blue pain of glass. Intuition lead to him reason doubting this theory, way before the discovery of electromagnetic light energy phenomena by Scotsman James Maxwell. It Was whilst escaping the plague of his hometown Cambridge, but some children’s glass prism is in a fair. He very cleverly arranged light beams to go through these prisons and by directing the beams of colour managed to prove that colour was the property of light rather than a byproduct of the substance it passed through.
Both heroes of physics had an inherent ‘knowing’ of the importance of light…..