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The date of the arbitrary fudge factorNot exactly (see Richtmeyer & Kinnard,Ch. III). Herts reported
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.
Thanks for the new word. MWCD 11th Ed.
Still, Jack may have a point about my being behind the times.
I thought that the inflationary big bang phase
requires the suspension of disbelief in hyperspeed.
Restore my faith: tell me I have it worng!
Brian W
p.s. To haver:
talk foolishly, babble; vacillate, hesitate
[COD 7th Ed.]
06:56 PM 6/19/2004, Jack, you wrote:
Hi all-
Brian's a bit behind the times and a bit off on dates.
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Brian Whatcott wrote:
I am not the one to poke fun at cosmogonists who seek to compose
the irreconcilable: I simply recall that the squirming point of the
fin du 19ieme century
"ultra-violet catastrophe" usually refers to early calculations in
quantum electrodynamics. Quantum mechanics was invented in the 1920's.
What 19th century paper is referred to here?
was the ultra violet catastrophe, and the
comparable issue at the end of the 20th has been the mensuration
of time and space.
Einstein havered with a constant to render variable
Although I don't recognize the verb here, Einstein's constant was to
render <static> the Schwarzschild solution to his equation. I don't
recognize the meaning of "variable cosmogony". Cosmogony means "1 : a
theory of the origin of the universe
2 : the creation or origin of the world or universe"
his cosmogony,
and more than one theorist is stringing together a pretty
necklace of dark masses, manifold dimensions and so forth.
There will, I dare say, first be:
a resolution of the red shift redder than the preferred Universal age:
This was true for a short time, but the near precision
determination of the Hubble "constant" has obvioated this apparent
problem.
faith!
then a reworking of the inflationary Universe: - if you're going to
believe in C, then act as though you believe in C, oh ye of little
I could go on, but I won't.
Brian W
The summary of the current measurements in the latest Physics
Today was, to my mind, pedagogically top notch. The evidence so far seems
to bne consistent with a cosmological constant in the Einstein sense.
<snip>
[Jack Uretsky]