Planck initially believed that he had justified the irreversibility of radiation processes through the lack of time symmetry in Maxwell’s equations – i.e. that the laws of electrodynamics distinguish ...

Max Planck may not be a household name, but he gave the world a household phrase: quantum theory. According to the European Space Agency, ... The Planck time equation.

These days, Max Planck’s name comes up most by way of the prestigious scientific institutes named after him. (The Max Planck Society runs 83 throughout Germany and the world.) But who was the ...

In 1899 Max Planck became a professor at the University of Berlin, after nine years at the University of Munich and Kiel University, in Germany. In his research there, he turned to a thermodynamic ...

An ultra-thin glass fiber emits light of different wavelengths. Theories going beyond Planck's law can describe this emission very accurately. Planck’s Law: In 1900, the Physicist Max Planck came up ...