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Today we're exploring one of Albert Einstein's most controversial papers: his ideas on the photoelectric effect, which describes light as quanta (discrete packets of energy) instead of a classical wave. This new understanding of light helped Niels Bohr create a new model of the atom.

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Quantum Computing - Electron Boogaloo - Extra History - #2

Today we're exploring one of Albert Einstein's most controversial papers: his ideas on the photoelectric effect, which describes light as quanta (discrete packets of energy) instead of a classical wave. This new understanding of light helped Niels Bohr create a new model of the atom. A tremendous thank-you to Alexander Tamas, the "mystery patron" who made this series possible. We finally found room in our busy production schedule to create and air this series alongside our regularly scheduled, patron-approved Extra History videos. A huge thank you to the multiple guest artists we got to work with, to Matt Krol for his skillful wrangling of the production schedule and keeping everyone happy, and to our Patreon supporters for your patience and support. Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon (--More below) Check out all our shows at http://becausegamesmatter.com Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage ____________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Outro music: "Subatomic Fugue" by Tiffany Roman http://www.tiffanyromanlouk.com/

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Anonymous

A lot of this is still over my head, but it's interesting!

Anonymous

This came just as I'd Finished Watching the latest Episode of the Majapahit Series, so I've got this on my "To Watch" List for later on this Week.

Samp

Sorry, a correction: Einstein never struggled at school, that is a myth. The confusion comes from the method of his school in collecting grades. Instead of a 10 being a maximum and a 0 the minimum It was the contrary, a 0 the maximum and a 10 a minimum. And the story of him repeating an year came from the fact that his school changed this system to a more "normal" one, making a 0 a low note and a 10 a high one. He always achieve zeros (when It was a high grade) and his notes came to be tens wen the system changed. I used to believe that too.

Samp

Oh, but he did have a problem in French (but he always excelled in math and physics).

Anonymous

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Anonymous

I thought Madam Curie proved atoms had a hard, positively charged nucleus. I suppose Bohr just said that electrons orbited this nucleus, but still, I thought they still knew about atoms and electrons before that. Unless was Curie's famous experiment after Einstein's paper and Bohr's model?

Anonymous

I'm sorry. I looked it up. I'm thinking of Ernest Rutherford and his experiment with Alpha particles.