Furthermore, there is a corresponding difference in the effect the knowledge of such truth has on the human mind. In the field of electricity we saw that together with the scientist’s recognition of the absolute qualities of the two polar forms of electricity a false semblance of reality was lent to the hypothesis of the atomic structure of matter. Something similar has occurred in the field of optics. Here, after having been forced to recognize the fallacy of Newton’s theory, the spectator’s mind has been driven to form a concept of the nature of light which is further than ever from the truth. For what then remains of light is – in Eddington’s words – a ‘quite irregular disturbance, with no tendency to periodicity’, which means that to light is assigned the quality of an undefined chaos (in the negative sense of this word) sprung from pure chance.