Should we ban serious and intelligent peoples here in Poll and Surveys?!
Question: oh yes. im here for a laugh not a lecture. just let me enjoy myself.
Answers: oh yes. im here for a laugh not a lecture. just let me enjoy myself.
Hey, I'm serious and intelligent but I like to have fun here! It's the trolls and people lacking a sense of humor we need to ban!!
No, but they'd better not be here. They already have their own sections.
Hahaha!!
You mean... ban ourselves?? lol
I thought we were the serious and intelligent ones :)
I thought they all were banished to R&S.
In physics, a quantum (plural: quanta) is an indivisible entity of energy. A photon, for instance, being a unit of light, is a "light quantum." In combinations like "quantum mechanics", "quantum optics", etc., it distinguishes a more specialized field of study.
The word comes from the Latin "quantus," for "how much."
When a body is heated, it emits radiant heat, a form of electromagnetic radiation in the infrared region of the EM spectrum. All of this was well understood at the time, and of considerable practical importance. When the body becomes red-hot, the red wavelength parts start to become visible. This had been studied over the previous years, as the instruments were being developed. However, most of the heat radiation remains infrared, until the body becomes as hot as the surface of the Sun (about 6000 °C, where most of the light is green in color). This was not achievable in the laboratory at that time. What is more, measuring specific infrared wavelengths was only then becoming feasible, due to newly developed experimental techniques. Until then, most of the electromagnetic spectrum was not measurable, and therefore blackbody emission had not been mapped out in detail.
The quantum black-body radiation formula, being the very first piece of quantum mechanics, appeared Sunday evening October 7, 1900, in a so-called back-of-the-envelope calculation by Planck. It was based on a report by Rubens (visiting with his wife) of the very latest experimental findings in the infrared. Later that evening, Planck sent the formula on a postcard, which Rubens received the following morning. A couple of days later, he informed Planck that it worked perfectly. At first, it was just a fit to the data; only later did it turn out to enforce quantization.
Behind this, one finds the fundamental notion that a physical property may be "quantized", referred to as "quantization". This means that the magnitude can take on only certain discrete numerical values, rather than any value, at least within a range. For example, the energy of an electron bound to an atom (at rest) is quantized. This accounts for the stability of atoms, and matter in general.
It's a poling place so everyone no matter intelligence or seriousness has a right to give their opinion.
Maybe you should look at the serious person and just thank God you are not as serious.
Look at the intelligent ones and thank them for helping to answer some of the harder questions that most of us could not answer.