| | Yesterday, by reading Weinberg's quantum field theory textbook, I found out that de Broglie came up with his theory of matter wave by the observation of the transformation law of k and w in (kx-wt) for the wave equation; E=h bar w was already established, so p= h bar k must be satisfied, as (k,w) as well as (E,p) obeys the Lorentz transformation law. Then he noted that this all makes sense with Niels Bohr's quantization condition for the hydrogen atom. I used to think that de Broglie came up with his theory only from Bohr's quantization condition. |
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