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Robert McNees on Nostr: Happy #QuantumDay to all who celebrate! Max Planck presented work on blackbody ...

Happy #QuantumDay to all who celebrate!

Max Planck presented work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900.

His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter should be treated as it it emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf.

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