Ultraviolet Catastrophe: How a Crisis in Classical Physics Rewrote Our Understanding of Light
In the annals of science, few puzzles are as famous as the Ultraviolet Catastrophe. A crisis born from the elegance of classical physics, it exposed a fundamental flaw in applying equipartition of energy to the spectrum of blackbody radiation. The catastrophe, as it has come to be known, marked a turning point that ushered in…
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