... Sommerfeld was struggling, trying to find an explanation for the behavior of optical spectrums emitted by atoms. When white light is sent through a spectrum, each color corresponds to a different band of frequencies. If the atom if one element are stimulated by heat or high voltage they will emit not an entire spectrum of radiation but only certain colored lines corresponding to certain ... definite frequencies of light characteristic of that element. One year later, Heisenberg presented his atomic " ... from the water in the tank. Next they saw the pile within shudder, then swell. With...

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... Sommerfeld was struggling, trying to find an explanation for the behavior of optical spectrums emitted by atoms. When white light is sent through a spectrum, each color corresponds to a different band of frequencies. If the atom if one element are stimulated by heat or high voltage they will emit not an entire spectrum of radiation but only certain colored lines corresponding to certain ... definite frequencies of light characteristic of that element. One year later, Heisenberg presented his atomic " ... from the water in the tank. Next they saw the pile within shudder, then swell. With...

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... back again, just as water can be converted into a solid and back again. Another physicist by the name of Ernest Rutherford showed that individual atoms could be broken down and split into even smaller, subatomic particles. But perhaps one of the most shocking blows of uncertainty in the world of physics came from Werner Heisenberg. His "principle of uncertainty," stated that because the speed and position of an electron are impossible ... , to expressionism, and from abstract to cubism. Impressionism played with the use of colors and light, and not always concrete shapes. Expressionism w...

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