Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 15:24:07 -0700
Subject: Re: Buddy, can youse paradigm?


Rahul Mahajan wrote:

> >-The other is Relativity, the result of the crisis produced by
> >Black Body radiation and the photoelectric effect.
> 
> This is wrong. Relativity had nothing to do with either black body
> radiation or the photoelectric effect. It came out of the inconsistency
> between Maxwell's equations and Newtonian mechanics and, experimentally,
> from results such as that on the aberration of stellar light, Fizeau's on
> the speed of light in a moving medium, and the Michelson-Morley
> interferometry results on the nonexistence of the ether.
> 
> Black body radiation and the photoelectric effect were both involved in the
> creation of quantum theory.

I stand corrected.  Thanks.  Sounds like I've taken it a bit too easy this summer. 
-- 
Yours &c.,

Jeff Johnson				  "Amicus Socrates, amicus Plato,
Graduate Student, Political Science		sed magis amica veritas."
University of Wisconsin--Madison	 	              --Aristotle


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