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   Jeremiah Jones to Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn   
   Re: energy and mass   
   17 Feb 26 20:03:55   
   
   From: jj@j.j   
      
   Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn  wrote:   
   > Bill Sloman wrote:   
   > > On 15/02/2026 1:21 am, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:   
   > >> And, of course, that Planck's radiation formula exactly predicts the   
   > >> spectral energy distribution of black-body radiation is (and was the   
   first)   
   > >> observational evidence that light energy is actually quantized.   
   > >   
   > > You've got it exactly backwards.   
   >   
   > No, I do not.   
   >   
   > > The failure to find formula that   
   > > matched the spectral energy distribution of black body radiation was the   
   > > "ultraviolet catastrophe" and Max Planck's resort to energy quantisation   
   > > to get a formula fitted the data was a desperate improvisation.   
   >   
   > Nevertheless, this was evidence supporting quantization.   
   >   
   > > Einstein's use of energy quantisation to explain the photo-electric   
   > > effect did actually exploit experimental observations, and Planck was   
   > > initially very dubious about it.   
   >   
   > Irrelevant.   
   >   
   > >>> invariably use tricks with non-linear optics, coincidence detectors and   
   > >>> statistical foul play. That includes the experiments of Aspect,   
   > >>> Grangier, Zeilinger, Kwiat, Gisin and numerous others.   
   > >>   
   > >> Yeah, in your mind everybody is "insane", except you.  Particularly the   
   > >> people who, by contrast to you, have actually studied this :-D   
   > >   
   > > You don't seem to have studied it all that thoroughly.   
   >   
   > LOL   
   >   
   > >> BTW, by address munging you are violating network standards.   
   > >   
   > > Not that you bother to tell us where we could find them.   
   >   
   > I already told you three times or more.  You simply do not pay enough   
   attention.   
   >   
   >    
      
      
   Nope. Doesn't say that.   
      
   Try again, or stop whinging about it.   
      
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