# #Mon Aug 09 12:01:57 CEST 2010 Text__IID3QKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=

For years Einstein is quite alone with his 1905 hypothesis that light consists of small packets of energy (quanta). His peer Max Laue, working at the time as Max Planck\u2019s assistant, sharply criticized Einstein\u2019s work a year later\: Radiation does not consist of light quanta, as it says in \u00A76 of your first paper, rather, it is only when it is exchanging energy with matter that it behaves as if it consisted of them.

Text__IID3QKOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=Early Critique of the Light-Quantum Hypothesis