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2 - What's It Like to Discover Quantum Mechanics?

Why This Universe?

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Max Planck's Reverse Engineered Solution to Vin's Law

Max Plank reverse engineered a solution to Vin's law, which worked by suggesting that an object can only radiate light at discrete energies. To realize exactly what Planck's solution meant for the nature of light, it took someone else - Albert Einstein. In 2005 he put out four separate papers, all of which were revolutionary in different ways changing physics forever.

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