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What is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 5 days ago by InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to c/science@feddit.uk

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow, good video. So classical physics predicted that as light wavelengths got shorter and shorter, the blackbody equation would start to go towards infinity, essentially predicting that near zero wavelengths would have near infinite energy.

Planck then said, hey maybe it's not to do with the frequency, but the throughput of discrete chunks of lights - and - boom - he got laid right there on the spot

[–] C1pher@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He did? Link to source pls… 😩

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Legend says he fathered 17 children that day.

[–] C1pher@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Stop blueballing me! I need the sauce 😩