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Reminds me a bit of the "ultraviolet catastrophe". > The ultraviolet catastrophe, also called the Rayleigh–Jeans catastrophe, was the prediction of late 19th c
by nkrisc 1y ago
Reminds me a bit of the "ultraviolet catastrophe".
> The ultraviolet catastrophe, also called the Rayleigh–Jeans catastrophe, was the prediction of late 19th century and early 20th century classical physics that an ideal black body at thermal equilibrium would emit an unbounded quantity of energy as wavelength decreased into the ultraviolet range.
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> The phrase refers to the fact that the empirically derived Rayleigh–Jeans law, which accurately predicted experimental results at large wavelengths, failed to do so for short wavelengths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe
- analog31 1y agoRight. Nobody believed that the intensity would go to infinity. What they believed was that the theory was incomplete, but they didn't know how or why. And the solution required inventing a completely new theory.