Planck introduced the quantum hypothesis from "summary" of To Explain the World by Steven Weinberg
In the early 20th century, a renowned physicist named Max Planck made a groundbreaking proposal that would revolutionize the field of physics. Planck introduced what is known as the quantum hypothesis, a concept that would completely change the way scientists understood the behavior of energy at the smallest scales. Before Planck's work, physicists believed that energy was continuous and could be divided into smaller and smaller increments without limit. However, Planck's theory challenged this assumption by suggesting that energy could only exist in discrete, quantized units. This idea was radical at the time, as it went against the prevailing beliefs of the scientific community. Planck's quantum hypothesis was a response to a puzzling problem known as the ultraviolet catastrophe, which arose from attempts to explain the behavior of blackbody radiation. Planck proposed that ener...
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