I finally understood why light is made of photons (My mind is blown!)

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Head to https://squarespace.com/floatheadphysics to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code FLOATHEADPHYSICS Let's explore how a tiny lab accident in 1887 (by Heinrich Hertz) unlocked the quantum revolution. This is a story of how Philipp Lenard, Max Planck, and Robert Millikan helped Einstein discover the quantum nature of light. Chapters: 00:00 The tiny lab accident 02:30 The brilliant experiment with electrons 05:58 The shocking discovery 07:27 Lenard's trigger hypothesis 09:03 Trigger hypothesis is in trouble 10:13 A revolutionary tool 11:40 Max Planck's act of despair (using water analogy) 16:14 Einstein's epiphany 21:13 Challenges to Einstein's revolutionary idea 23:59 The last straw or was it? 29:58 The writing on the wall Papers: Max Planck's 1900 Paper on black body radiaion http://strangepaths.com/files/planck1901.pdf Einstein's 1905 Papers https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol2-trans/104 Music: Epidemic sound This video was sponsored by squarespace