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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Brian Whatcott wrote:
> The date of the arbitrary fudge factor
> identified by Planck which reconciles the Rayleigh-Jeans law
> to the experimental black-body curve was 1900.
> It's now initialized with a letter that looks much like an 'h'.
> Hope this straightens out the dateline.
>
> Planck's remained a lonely voice until a patent clerk illuminated
> a clean copper sheet with light of various intensities and
> frequencies and used the same fudge factor to fit the
> response curve. This did snag a Nobel. What year was that?
> Can't recall. [Brian]
Not exactly (see Richtmeyer & Kinnard,Ch. III). Herts reported
the effect in 1887. [Jack]
There is no causality problem with inflationary theory because no
information is transmitted faster than light. [Jack]