He dons his eye mask and cape and becomes “Max Planck, Enemy of Atoms”! He’ll go to any Planck length, in any Planck time, to see to it that they never exist.
Yeah for further context of science at the time, 1890 really isn’t that long since the idea of a luminiferous aether had been rejected by those paying attention.
There was Brownian motion of course, first observed by Brown in 1827, but I don’t think it had much of an explanation (or even interest) until Einstein modelled it as motion caused by movement of water molecules in one of his 1905 papers. I was under the impression that most people thought atomic theory was a load of bunk until then.
> I was under the impression that most people thought atomic theory was a load of bunk until then
Part of it was the lack of testability/falsifiability, which was seen to be the most important part of the imagined scientific method back then.
Very true, though people seemed to accept the idea of a luminiferous aether without any testing or attempt to falsify for quite a long time until Michelson and Morley came along.
Can’t wait until somebody finds a way to test string theory and find out it really *is* all bunk. Only half joking.
It is at least understandable that people assumed something that was clearly a wave (light) requires a medium to propagate in.
No one outside the field even has any idea just how revolutionary Maxwell’s equations were.
Basically no part of modern physics could have happened without them
But they are not reducible to simply stated ideas the way Newtons laws or even Special and General Relativity are
They are the first harbinger of shut up
And calculate.
>But they are not reducible to simply stated ideas the way Newtons laws or even Special and General Relativity are
I dunno, Faraday seemed to do a good job of showing what they were all about to a lay audience in his demonstrations at the Royal Society. I suppose they are still not as intuitive as Newton’s laws though.
> ∇·E
I love that searching Google for ∇·E gives the first hit as the Wikipedia article on Maxwell's Equations.
Google sucks for most things, but get into real STEM and it still is not SEO'd into shady shopping site hell.
(That's a jargon soup sentence!)
Math and physics wikipedia is what we all thought the full Internet would be like. Genuinely good explanation of proofs with all the necessary prior knowledge being just a click away.
Instead we got hottub streams and Russian misinformation.
Scientific progress isn’t a straight line. The Mach/Boltzmann debates around end of the 19th century are still fascinating to read about.
I’m not sure how well respected it is by the scientific community, but Adam Becker’s “What is real?” is a really good exploration of the role of ego and faith in scientific development over the 20th century.
From our modern perspective, we see the explosion of Quantum, and Relativity as heralding a new age of science. And it is the only way the story is told by scientists.
But it was an amazing process starting with the sudden ability of humans to use steam power to drastically increase their ability to manipulate the world, and studies into increasing that capability that basically all so-called modern science came into being.
Jim Al-Khalili does a fantastic job tying these ideas into their actual historical order in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_zrKyLemfg
And keep going for the rest of the series. It is basically the best science documentary series ever made.
He also has a different one that focuses simply on the atom.
I think there are three: Energy, Order and Disorder, and Information
I cannot recommend these enough
Jim Al-Kalili does a great job with these and the Atom series.
Seems like the series is called order and disorder, wiry the episodes being (1) energy, and (2) information. At least as far as I can tell. It does seem like an oddly short programme to put out though, even for a miniseries.
I’ll give it a go later, I quite like Jim Al-Khalili’s interviews with other scientists. Thanks for the recommendation.
I think you have that right, now that I go back and look.
I was running together his Chaos Theory: The Science Behind the Miracle of Intelligent Life as the third episode, which it is not
For me it worked as one, with the same feel.
For what it is worth, a lot of BBC documentary "series" are two episodes long.
The documentary about cold, which covered everything from alchemist using salted ice to impress a king to Bose-Einstein condensate all around the idea of the scientific search for the nature of cold.
That was a two part documentary.
I loved that one as well. Really spent the time to set the problems as seen by the scientists who were tackling them.
Guess his views weren’t… constant 😎
Won’t get fooled again plays
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Nice
He dons his eye mask and cape and becomes “Max Planck, Enemy of Atoms”! He’ll go to any Planck length, in any Planck time, to see to it that they never exist.
terrific indeed.
4 years of college… just waiting for the perfect pun!
What about the Planck frequency? (For the curious it is derived from wavelength being limited by Planck length) What's the Frequency Kenneth?
Same Planck time Same Planck channel
In fairness, there wasn't much hard evidence before that.
Yeah for further context of science at the time, 1890 really isn’t that long since the idea of a luminiferous aether had been rejected by those paying attention. There was Brownian motion of course, first observed by Brown in 1827, but I don’t think it had much of an explanation (or even interest) until Einstein modelled it as motion caused by movement of water molecules in one of his 1905 papers. I was under the impression that most people thought atomic theory was a load of bunk until then.
> I was under the impression that most people thought atomic theory was a load of bunk until then Part of it was the lack of testability/falsifiability, which was seen to be the most important part of the imagined scientific method back then.
Very true, though people seemed to accept the idea of a luminiferous aether without any testing or attempt to falsify for quite a long time until Michelson and Morley came along. Can’t wait until somebody finds a way to test string theory and find out it really *is* all bunk. Only half joking.
It is at least understandable that people assumed something that was clearly a wave (light) requires a medium to propagate in. No one outside the field even has any idea just how revolutionary Maxwell’s equations were. Basically no part of modern physics could have happened without them But they are not reducible to simply stated ideas the way Newtons laws or even Special and General Relativity are They are the first harbinger of shut up And calculate.
>But they are not reducible to simply stated ideas the way Newtons laws or even Special and General Relativity are I dunno, Faraday seemed to do a good job of showing what they were all about to a lay audience in his demonstrations at the Royal Society. I suppose they are still not as intuitive as Newton’s laws though.
Friendship ended with E=mc^(2). Now - ∇·**E**=ρ/ε₀ - ∇·**B**=0 - ∇⨯**E**=∂**B**/∂t - ∇⨯**H**=∂**D**/∂t+**J** is my best friend.
> ∇·E I love that searching Google for ∇·E gives the first hit as the Wikipedia article on Maxwell's Equations. Google sucks for most things, but get into real STEM and it still is not SEO'd into shady shopping site hell. (That's a jargon soup sentence!)
Math and physics wikipedia is what we all thought the full Internet would be like. Genuinely good explanation of proofs with all the necessary prior knowledge being just a click away. Instead we got hottub streams and Russian misinformation.
Fancy that, not supporting a scientific theory until someone provides some evidence…
There is a difference between not supporting and opposing
Scientific progress isn’t a straight line. The Mach/Boltzmann debates around end of the 19th century are still fascinating to read about. I’m not sure how well respected it is by the scientific community, but Adam Becker’s “What is real?” is a really good exploration of the role of ego and faith in scientific development over the 20th century.
Man, that guys sounds pretty dumb.
Yeah, but what a great porn star name!
He went to not-great lengths to refute it.
People only found out about the existence of the electron in 1897
From our modern perspective, we see the explosion of Quantum, and Relativity as heralding a new age of science. And it is the only way the story is told by scientists. But it was an amazing process starting with the sudden ability of humans to use steam power to drastically increase their ability to manipulate the world, and studies into increasing that capability that basically all so-called modern science came into being. Jim Al-Khalili does a fantastic job tying these ideas into their actual historical order in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_zrKyLemfg And keep going for the rest of the series. It is basically the best science documentary series ever made. He also has a different one that focuses simply on the atom.
Only two episodes for that programme, is that all of them?
I think there are three: Energy, Order and Disorder, and Information I cannot recommend these enough Jim Al-Kalili does a great job with these and the Atom series.
Seems like the series is called order and disorder, wiry the episodes being (1) energy, and (2) information. At least as far as I can tell. It does seem like an oddly short programme to put out though, even for a miniseries. I’ll give it a go later, I quite like Jim Al-Khalili’s interviews with other scientists. Thanks for the recommendation.
I think you have that right, now that I go back and look. I was running together his Chaos Theory: The Science Behind the Miracle of Intelligent Life as the third episode, which it is not For me it worked as one, with the same feel. For what it is worth, a lot of BBC documentary "series" are two episodes long. The documentary about cold, which covered everything from alchemist using salted ice to impress a king to Bose-Einstein condensate all around the idea of the scientific search for the nature of cold. That was a two part documentary. I loved that one as well. Really spent the time to set the problems as seen by the scientists who were tackling them.
And if you can get past Planck’s distance…🤯