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Is Planck a loon? > In 1900, Max Planck derived the correct form for the intensity spectral distribution function by making some strange (for the time) assumpt
by ingleso 4y ago
Is Planck a loon?
> In 1900, Max Planck derived the correct form for the intensity spectral distribution function by making some strange (for the time) assumptions. In particular, Planck assumed that electromagnetic radiation can be emitted or absorbed only in discrete packets, called quanta, of energy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe#Solution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe#Solu...
How do you explain the zenos paradox’s place in reality?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes
What’s with the hate on Plato’s ideals? What is a “chair”? Draw me a “circle”.
- mjburgess 4y agoOf course reality has discrete aspects. That really has nothing to do with whether it /only/ has discrete aspects, and indeed, whether they are abstract (ie., lack spatiotemporal properies). People who believe that today are mostly loons -- with the eyes, fervour and askew chalantanism of loons