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Max Planck
Max Planck
Lived from 1858 to 1947, aged 89.
Planck discovered limits by following the math honestly—even when it contradicted intuition.
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“It was an act of despair, to sacrifice physics for the sake of finding an explanation.”
- Max Planck
- circa 1900
Planck Constant
Breakthroughs often occur when conviction gives way to honesty.
Particle Physics
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What is the history behind quantum mechanics?
Epistemology
By tradition, quantum theory was born on December 14, 1900, when Max Planck cracked classical physics with the strange idea that energy comes in discrete packets.
Particle Physics
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What is the classic double‐slit experiment?
Wave-Particle Duality
The double-slit experiment shows why quantum mechanics is so strange: tiny things land like particles, but their overall pattern can form like waves.
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