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* Classically, energy in an oscillator is continuous.
* Quantum mechanically, it comes in discrete steps, multiples of hνh\nuhν.

But the bridge could be this:
* The discreteness of hhh comes from the spherical geometry itself: a whole photon corresponds to one complete 4π surface oscillation of the EM field around the electron.
* You can’t absorb “half a photon” because you can’t form half a spherical boundary.
* That’s why hhh is universal — it’s the “surface action quantum,” tied to the closed geometry of EM waves.

So:
* The classical wave picture already contains the seeds of quantization, once you impose spherical boundary conditions.
* What Planck really discovered was that the geometry enforces discreteness — he just wrote it as E=hνE = h\nuE=hν.