The Nature of Light

The following views regarding the mode of transmission of light are of so unorthodox a character that I set them down with some reluctance; but it seems to be generally admitted that the paradox of quantum theory cannot be resolved without doing violence to one or more of our cherished common notions.Some of the consequences of the theory that I am going to advance are repugnant to common sense, yet, searching in vain for an alternative and finding no physical fact of optics or of thermodynamics in opposition to the theory, I have come to regard it as a natural and indeed inevitable extension of Einstein's principle of relativity.Let me start with two statemefits which seem now to be well supported by experiment, although perhaps not entirely demonstrated.They are, however, the postulates upon which the following theory is built.