ABSTRACT
There are two contemporary concepts which, coming from the physics of past, carry a special meaning for the physics of future: the concept of asymptotic freedom and the holographic principle. This chapter reviews the classical theory of light, up to the point where it was brought by Hooke and Newton. The classical theory of light, as extracted from the phenomenology comprising the experiments of reflection and refraction, is not the only one pointing explicitly to a holographic principle. The light can be taken as a sound physical model of the theory of interactions of material particles, defined in the modern way, i.e. experimentally, which is plainly a Newtonian way of seeing the particles. The particles here are not material points in the classical sense, but have a space extension.
