Planck doesn’t deserve his own constant
Aug 20th, 2009
Why is it that Planck has his own constant named after him when someone as great as Archimedes has a constant that’s more commonly known as Pi? Pi is so important and Archimedes was the first to determine that 223/71 < Ï€ < 22/7. You know how he did that? He inscribed circles in polygons and then calculated the perimeters of those polygons. He eventually used the perimeter of a 96 side polygon to get as close as he possibly could. 96! That’s some straight up awesome shit!
You know what Planck did? He studied black body radiation. You know what that is? It’s radiation emitted from matter that absorbs all light. Planck’s constant tells you what the quantized energy of photons coming off of a black body is, assuming you know their frequency. Whoop de doo!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been with a friend who has said something like, “You know, this roll of toilet paper is slightly bigger than this other one, but I don’t know how much bigger it is. I know! I’ll use pi to figure it out. Then I can be sure of how much more bum-wiping goodness I’ll get out of it,” or “That’s a cool looking cup, but I wonder if my hand will be able to grip it comfortably. Sure I could just pick it up, but if there was only some way to measure whether my hand, which I know the length of, could possibly fit around the cup. Oh! I forgot I could use pi!”
You know how many times one of my friends has looked up at a piece of black body and said, “Hey, I wonder how much quantized energy is being radiated from that black body. If only I knew the frequency of the photons, I could use Planck’s constant to figure that shit out”? Once! One time has a friend said that. Hardly worthy of some old nerd getting his name eternally attached to some number.
Physicists have such lame flamewars.
I’ve said that least 2008380 times. The problem this like that is they are just too compilcated for the average bird, if you know what I mean
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