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Hello,

Have a look at the following pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_(disambiguation)

You can follow links on those pages too.

Bertus

 

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Maybe it will be interesting for you to know:
How the Quantum Theory was started ?
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Planck was founder of QT ( quantum of action / energy)
Did he discover the quantum experimentally ?
No, it wasn’t any empirical evidence.
Then, what did Planck do?
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Many years Planck was attracted with the
absolutely black body problem.
If quantum of light falls in an area of absolutely black
body and does not radiate back, then " thermal death" comes.
In 1900 Planck decided: there is only one way to save
the quantum of light from ‘ thermal death’ -- it must radiate
with unit: h=Et.
This unit doesn’t come from any formulas or equations.
Planck introduced this unit from heaven, from ceiling.
Sorry. Sorry.
I must write: Planck introduced this unit (h) intuitively.
I must write: Planck introduced unit (h) phenomenologically.
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Many years Planck tried to chance his intuitive discovery into
more realistic basis but unsuccessful.
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Socratus
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