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43:50Like, you know, in in like when you when you like have when you're playing billiards and like the balls like bounce and then and then the other ball bounces and the other ball bounces. He literally showed that there's conservation of momentum, conservation of energy, and all of the calculations that you use in pool are also applied at the subatomic level when it comes to light interacting with matter. He won the Nobel Prize in 1927.

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