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fsoica
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Hello !
I'm just a passionate reader of popular physics books.
Often I'm in trouble understanding concepts and ideas.
hopefully this time someone here will help me...
I'm reading atm "From certainty to uncertainty", the book of David Peat.
He mentions in the first chapter about 2 clouds that darken the sky of classical physics at the end of the 19th century:
the luminiferous ether problem (I'm familiar with it)
and
"the problem of distributing energy equally among vibrating molecules"
(later on , "the way in which the energy is shared by vibrating molecules").
Since it has something to do with black body radiation, as the author mentions, i chose to ask the question in this category.
So, can anyone shed some light here? What problem David Peat is talking about ?
If someone could explain it in layman's terms, I'd be grateful...
I'm just a passionate reader of popular physics books.
Often I'm in trouble understanding concepts and ideas.
hopefully this time someone here will help me...
I'm reading atm "From certainty to uncertainty", the book of David Peat.
He mentions in the first chapter about 2 clouds that darken the sky of classical physics at the end of the 19th century:
the luminiferous ether problem (I'm familiar with it)
and
"the problem of distributing energy equally among vibrating molecules"
(later on , "the way in which the energy is shared by vibrating molecules").
Since it has something to do with black body radiation, as the author mentions, i chose to ask the question in this category.
So, can anyone shed some light here? What problem David Peat is talking about ?
If someone could explain it in layman's terms, I'd be grateful...
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