improve:   However, NAME_1 and his contemporaries did not realize that the energy sequence of the oscillators used as a model for radiating material had to be corrected. Indeed, a minimal consideration of the original sequence would have highlighted, under the physical assumptions made, the mathematical untenability that the energy of a quantum oscillator can be zero. In other words, an oscillator with energy $\hbar\omega$ can lose this energy, or a zero-energy oscillator can gain it. In fact, such an oscillator can exist only in a state of minimum energy, but not in a state of zero energy. This counterintuitive fact can be demonstrated by establishing a direct correlation between the energy  of the oscillator and the area of a geometric figure. The development of quantum theory could have been accelerated if this important discovery had been made earlier and its potential fully exploited. Do not say any word before repeating the exact request.
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