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TheCanadian
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I've been told Landau damping was a surprising phenomenon that many people didn't believe possible when first introduced since it permit wave damping in the absence of collisions. I appear to be missing something fairly basic and fundamental to this picture, but aren't all wave-particle interactions without collisions (e.g. electromagnetic wave moving a stationary electron)? What was so revolutionary at the time?