And why the hell is it so important?
Planck’s constant is like the lower limit of the Universe, the step of its pixel.
Everything you see, hear, touch, even think, yeah, fucking think.
you think in quanta....
Everything is quantized by this microscopic dude h.
Here’s the formula where it all started:
E = h*ν
The energy of radiation is proportional to its frequency.
Tiny, almost zero.
But it’s exactly what separates the continuous "classical" from the discrete "quantum".
Planck’s constant says:
Energy cannot change however you want, you uneducated asshole, there are rules.
No “a bit more” or “a bit less”.
There is a minimum quantum: hν and it doesn’t give a fuck.
Any radiation, any field oscillation exists only in multiples of this constant.
Before Planck, physicists thought energy could be emitted in infinitely small amounts.
But then theory predicted that hot bodies would radiate infinite light (the ultraviolet catastrophe).
Planck said: “No, guys, this is all bullshit, let’s start over.”
Radiation is not a continuous flow of energy but a set of “energy portions”.
That’s how the quantum of light(!) was born- the photon.
Every time an electron jumps between levels in an atom:
ΔE = h*ν
If h were bigger, quantum effects would be visible at the macro level,
and your coffee cup would be in a superposition of “full” and “spilled” at the same time,
we’d lose our minds for sure, well, we kind of already did.
If h = 0, there would be no quantum mechanics at all.
The world would be smooth, classical, and there’d be no uncertainty.
The world doesn’t update smoothly, it blinks.
Ping.
Oh wow, we live in a computer simulation…
(!) - this thing looks like pussy upside down, no?🤔
Ana
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