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Why don't you tell us something about that thesis of de broglie?'
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So in one of the next colloquia,
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Schrodinger gave a beautifully clear account of
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how de Broglie associated a wave with a particle.
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When he had finished, Debye casually remarked that
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he thought this way of talking was rather childish.
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He had learned that, to deal properly with waves,
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one had to have a wave equation.
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It sounded rather trivial and did not seem to make a great impression,
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but Schrodinger evidently thought a bit more about the idea afterwards,
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and just a few weeks later he gave another talk in the colloquia
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which he started by saying,