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ruveyn wrote:
Scientist wrote:
I think of Christopher LLoyed as the nutty professor in -Back to the Future-. 1.8 Teravolts!! ! My God!!
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Tollorin
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Well, the Higgs is worse than finding nothing, cause then we're left with a crappy theory that explains none of it's parameters, but works arbitrarily.
Like a mad lib.
Btw, Planck posited the quanta hypothesis, Einstein posited that it applied to physical reality.
The Wiki folks wrote:
The history of quantum mechanics[12] began essentially with the 1838 discovery of cathode rays by Michael Faraday, the 1859 statement of the black body radiation problem by Gustav Kirchhoff, the 1877 suggestion by Ludwig Boltzmann that the energy states of a physical system could be discrete, and the 1900 quantum hypothesis by Max Planck that any energy is radiated and absorbed in quantities divisible by discrete ‘energy elements’, E, such that each of these energy elements is proportional to the frequency ν with which they each individually radiate energy, as defined by the following formula:
where h is Planck's Action Constant. Planck insisted[13] that this was simply an aspect of the processes of absorption and emission of radiation and had nothing to do with the physical reality of the radiation itself. However, at that time, this appeared not to explain the photoelectric effect (1839), i.e. that shining light on certain materials can function to eject electrons from the material. In 1905, basing his work on Planck’s quantum hypothesis, Albert Einstein[14] postulated that light itself consists of individual quanta. These later came to be called photons (1926).From Einstein's simple postulation was born a flurry of debating, theorizing and testing, and thus, the entire field of quantum physics.
where h is Planck's Action Constant. Planck insisted[13] that this was simply an aspect of the processes of absorption and emission of radiation and had nothing to do with the physical reality of the radiation itself. However, at that time, this appeared not to explain the photoelectric effect (1839), i.e. that shining light on certain materials can function to eject electrons from the material. In 1905, basing his work on Planck’s quantum hypothesis, Albert Einstein[14] postulated that light itself consists of individual quanta. These later came to be called photons (1926).From Einstein's simple postulation was born a flurry of debating, theorizing and testing, and thus, the entire field of quantum physics.
Planck was somewhat right, and somewhat wrong. I know Einstein never intended for people to consider light as if the particle/wave duality meant it actually consists of particles, instead of BEHAVING like it does.
