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The two discussions, Quantum Mechanics/ Photoelectric Effect/Particle Theory, compared to the subject of relativity and field theory are generally considered antithetical/contrary-to each other.

The discontinuous fork in the formerly continuous road through theoretical physics.

In 1900, theoretical physics was near to recognizing, utilizing and pursuing continuous field theory to its fullest extents; when Max Planck's discovery of the 'constant H factor' emerged - a discontinuous, invariably uniform value that the continuous field could be (and is in fact) reduced to (refer, 'black body radiation').

This discovery deterred any further vigorous pursuit of the direction Maxwell was proceeding in, with his continuous field theory.

Theoretical physics branched out, at Plank's introduced juncture of discontinuity; wherein and thenceforth, theoretical physics in general was dichotomized, brachiated.

Field Theory is about continuous waves. Quantum Mechanics is about discontinuous 'particles' (wave mechanics). The record repeats, the two subjects are considered mutually exclusive. Continuous Field Physics apparently contradicted by Discontinuous Waves - 'Particle physics'...

Whereas, the apparently inherent contradiction is actually an illusion. Continuous Field theory inherently begets Discontinuous Particles; there is no real 'contradiction': at the transition of the four dimensional mass, consisting of four ninety degree quadrants totaling a 360o concentricity...

Any more energy generated by that system, has no more room to occur inside that 360o, 4-D 'material' system, the 5th quadrant of ninety degrees - generated by and a result of the four dimensions constituting the matter energy that generates it, moving at right angles out of 4-D matter, in a fifth ninety degree unit of electricity, the 5th dimension extrapolating - 'quantum leaping' out of the four ninety degree quadrants of physical matter.

Actually, the 5th dimension (5th ninety degree quadrant) doesn't ‘mysteriously’ leap out of 4-D matter at all, but rather is an inevitably extrapolated, continuous - inevitably accelerated - extension of it, manifest in an apparently discontinuous unit - Plank's constant H, always having the same value, because it is always the 5th ninety degree unit extending out of the 4 physical dimensions that preceded and generated it. (Illustration ~ exponential geometric extrapolation of four ninety degree quadrants ).

The 5th ninety degree units moving at right angles from the 4-D charges ('particles') are called photons, or 'quanta' and are the smallest fundamental and consistent unit of energy.

They ('quanta') do not actually contradict continuous field theory, but rather, are generated by the 4-D space-time continuum. The 5th and 6th dimensions of electricity and magnetism respectively, are accelerating, just as the source from which they invariably originate (4-D matter), but the expansion of electricity and magnetism is exponentially extended from matter and therefore accelerating at a much faster - quantum leaping - rate... An illusion of 'contradiction' of continuous field theory.

Whereas the apparently 'discontinuous' particle is actually a 4-dimensionally and continuously expanding charge of electricity which generates 5 dimensional quadrants - photons - at right angles from it's 4-D boundaries. Refer Fritjov Capra's Tao of Physics, which does not resolve the above but allows for *the illusion of apparent contradiction which is actually reciprocally supportive, which is the central meaning of * 'Tao'.

Subsequent to this conceptual departure in what had formerly been the generally agreed conceptualization of field physics, Eddington said, "We'll call matter 'particles' on Mondays, we'll call it 'waves' on Tuesdays, and we'll call it 'waveicles' the rest of the week." - Paraphrased.

Eddington's Spartan sense of humor about the apparent dilemma directly implies that the alleged quandary is illusory. Continuous field physics does not contradict discontinuous particle physics, or conversely. They accompany one another, the latter, generated by the former. As gravity is both a push (at short distances - re: http://forums.delphiforums.com/EinsteinGroupie) and a pull (at long distances), so particles and fields are likewise non contradictory and mutually occurrent. Co-existing together. The - wave mechanical - particles (5th ninety degree unit of four D matter) projected at right angles from and outside of the 4-D accelerating fields of matter.
The question of why matter is expanding is an important one, but to date, undetermined by anyone, certainly including the minority of people who recognize the accelerating expansion (of physical matter).

On the other hand we have the opportunity to understand that (corporeal, 'solid'; sub-atomic) matter (and everything constituted of it) is definitely expanding, and that it - for whatever reason - generates electricity and magnetism, which move, respectively, at right angles out of matter. Electricity moving away from and perpendicular to matter, and magnetism moving at right angles to electricity. Electricity and magnetism invariably accompany one another, hence the term 'electromagnetism'.