Originally Posted By: paul
he must have been a pretty smart guy then...

I suppose that is scary and perhaps I should have waited
until halloween. sick

that doesnt mean however that I agree with QM

Yes,he was a very smart guy and I don't claim you believe in QM.

Planck is considered the father of Quantum mechanics for exactly that thought. He started conceptually like you did with the vibrations as a concept, what he discovers is the vibrations are real and because of that they have "discrete energy amounts" as they are a vibration.

Originally Posted By: Max Planck history . wikipedia
At first Planck considered that quantisation was only "a purely formal assumption ... actually I did not think much about it...";

What it does say is you agree with it's QM's birth premise. You think that QM theory fails somewhere higher up.

There is however a massive sting in the tail of that premise smile

Last edited by Orac; 07/05/16 06:07 AM.

I believe in "Evil, Bad, Ungodly fantasy science and maths", so I am undoubtedly wrong to you.