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Planck's law … fails … - SlideRule - 10-28-2019 11:48 AM
Excerpts from A Fundamental Physics Law Just Failed a Test Using Nanoscale Objects, MIKE MCRAE, 5 SEP 2018
"Planck's law of radiative heat transfer has held up well under a century of intense testing, but a new analysis has found it fails on the smallest of scales.
Exactly what this means isn't all that clear yet, but where laws fail, new discoveries can follow. Such a find wouldn't just affect physics on an atomic scale – it could impact everything from climate models to our understanding of planetary formation.
The foundational law of quantum physics was recently put to the test by researchers …
Not only does the law fail, the experimental result is 100 times greater than the predicted figure …
It's important to experimentally measure something, but also important to actually understand what is going on. …
This hyper-efficient rate of energy transfer could feasibly change how we understand heat transfer in the atmosphere, or in a cooling body the size of a planet. The extent of this difference is still a mystery, but one with some potentially profound implications .…
This research was published in Nature."
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RE: Planck's law … fails … - mfleming - 10-28-2019 03:11 PM
(10-28-2019 11:48 AM)SlideRule Wrote: Planck's law of radiative heat transfer
Any Theory referred to as a Law (Newton's Law of Gravity et al) will eventually get its comeuppance
