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The Elegance in Science


Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Date published: 2023-02-24
Date modified: 2023-02-24
Reading time: 00:01:06

Author: Patrizia Tomasi-Bensik

The Elegance in Science

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Max Planck

 

In my fourth year of mechanical engineering, I worked as an intern in a glass factory.

With Fernando, the owner of the factory, I acquired two passions: vintage cars and glassware. In fact, even as a child, I had an incredible attraction to the Baccarat Nelly vase, which my mother always filled with red roses.

Fernando taught me that the best crystal is the one that doesn't need to be cut because it has no bubbles to hide. It is pure, clear, and whole.

In 1898, Max Planck proposed that light does not travel in a continuous stream, but in tiny "bundles of energy," which he called quanta. Planck's proposal was so unorthodox that if he was right, then physics would be wrong. Incomplete, to put it mildly.

And this physics had not been proposed by anyone. It was the physics proposed by Isaac Newton, a monolith of science.

Between 1898 and 1900, Planck tried to prove his theory wrong.

Break.

Who in the world discovers something of the magnitude of what Planck discovered and goes to great lengths to prove himself wrong?

A genius. Only a genius.

From the height of his sobriety, coherence, and love of science, Max Planck did not need the ether or the cosmological constant, as Einstein did. Or the planet Vulcan, the phlogiston. Planck had deep doubts about the quality of his constant h. He didn't know if it was a cosmological truth or a mathematical device of his own making.

Take the Higgs boson, for example. The particle that creates matter is not one, but five; it only exists if there is the Higgs field, and this field is both thicker and thinner, depending on who takes it.

In science, F=m.a, E=mc2, E=h.f. Simple, direct, without the frills that hide the flaws, the inconsistencies. It's my mother's Nelly vase.

By the way: Planck did not prove his theory wrong. Nor his constant.

Quantum mechanics and one of the five cosmological constants are the results of his work.

Max Planck had an IQ of 192.

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