Speaker
Nils-Erik Bomark
(University of Agder)
Description
We have all heard how classical physics predicts an infinite amount of ultraviolet radiation from a black-body and how Planck solved this by quantizing the electromagnetic radiation.
This, however, is a myth, nobody at the time was worried about any ultraviolet catastrophe, the term was not even coined until 11 years after Planck. So what did Planck do and why? That will be the topic of this presentation.
