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Prof.
John Satterly's introduction for the song "hv":
Times change. The quantum
comes on the scene and the laws of radiation are clarified by
Planck and his successors. The wave theory, however, still holds
the field in its beautiful explanation of interference of light
and diffraction effects. The two rival theories seem inconsistent
yet both are necessary; as Sir William Bragg said “We
teach the wave theory on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and
the quantum theory on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.”
The author of this song is G. Stead, a Cambridge graduate, teacher
and author of a well-known textbook on general physics.
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