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Einstein explained the photoelectric effect strictly

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While everyone else was arguing about light behaving like a continuous wave, Albert Einstein stubbornly asserted it was actually made of tiny distinct packets. He explained that these packets knock electrons off metal surfaces like billiard balls. This highly rigid explanation finally made sense of the phenomenon, completely upending traditional optical theory.

Einstein explained the photoelectric effect strictly
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