CJ on Mathematics and Science

This is a clarification of this post on the physical meaning of Planck's constant $h$ and so of Quantum Mechanics QM  as a whole. The b...

Modern physics as relativity theory + quantum mechanics was born out of two misconceptions formed in the mind of the young Einstein as pat...

Here is a short excerpt from my book Dr Faustus of Modern Physics  giving perspective on the birth in 1900 of Quantum Mechanics with Planck...

Outgoing Longwave Radiation OLR from the Top of the Atmosphere ToA is measured by a CERES satellite looking down on ToA equipped with a se...

Planck describes in his autobiography his theoretical derivation of  Planck's Law for black-body radiation presented in 1900 ,  in com...

Man-made Universality of Shape This is a clarification of the previous post on the perfect Planck blackbody spectrum of the Cosmic Microwav...

Transfer of heat energy from warm to cold by electromagnetic waves. This is a continuation of recent posts on the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics....

One may expect that  radiative heat transfer  as a basic topic of both fundamental and engineering physics, has been well understood since l...

Photon/Energy Quanta Corrupters of Modern Physics Modern Physics identified by quantum mechanics/atom mechanics as a revolution of classical...

Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his 1905  discovery of the Law of Photoelectricity  (discovered by Hertz already i...

Computational BlackBody Radiation  offers a new proof of the Planck-Stefan-Boltzmann Law PSB based on  electromagnetic wave resonance under...

In the previous post we observed that Planck's constant $h$ appears as a conversion factor connecting light of frequency $\nu$ with att...

Planck's reasoning was mad, but his madness has that divine quality that only the greatest transitional figures can bring to science. (A...

I have put up a preliminary version of my talk at Climate Sense 2018 for inspection.

Computation Blackbody Radiation  presentats a new approach to Planck's radiation law based on finite precision computation applied to a ...

I have tested the new atomic model described in a previous post  in setting of spherical symmetry with electrons filling a sequence of n...

Hej Lennart: Du föreslog att jag skulle ta kontakt med Raymond Pierrehumbert angående fysiken bakom "återstrålning, vilket jag gjor...

Planck awarding the Planck Medal to Einstein in 1929 for his elaboration of Planck's idea of discrete of quanta of energy into quanta ...