But What is Light?

It took a genius to figure it out

Maarten De Baecke
Cantor’s Paradise
9 min readOct 3, 2021

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Photo by Maks Key on Unsplash

The study of light originated in ancient greek where philosophers started to ponder about how vision works. Thinkers such as Plato and Pythagoras thought that our eyes send out little light probes. These probes would then gather information about the objects around us and somehow bring this information back to us.

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