In 1900, Max Planck was trying to solve a stubborn problem: the spectrum of radiation emitted by a hot body. The mathematics led him somewhere unexpected. He found that the observed spectrum could be explained if energy were exchanged not continuously, but in discrete packets: E = hν Here, ν is frequency and h is the constant now bearing his name. Planck initially treated quantization as a mathematical necessity rather than a complete new picture of nature. But the small constant h became one of the defining constants of modern physics. Einstein soon pushed the idea further by treating light itself as quantized. A problem about thermal radiation had opened the door to quantum theory. Source: Nobel Prize, historical account of the development of quantum theory and Planck’s 1900 work.

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🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST CAPTURED AN IMAGE OF A QUANTUM MYSTERY For decades, scientists have known that two particles can become entangled, meaning their quantum states can remain connected even when the particles are separated. But there has always been a fascinating question: can we actually see what this strange connection looks like? Now, physicists have created images that reveal the interference pattern produced by entangled photons. The image does not show two photons physically connected by some invisible thread. Instead, it shows the pattern of probabilities created by their quantum behavior. Bright and dark regions appear as different probability amplitudes combine, strengthen each other, or cancel each other out. It is similar to what happens when waves overlap. In some places they add together and become stronger. In others, they cancel out. But here, the pattern comes from quantum probabilities rather than ordinary water or sound waves. What makes the experiment so interesting is that scientists are getting a more direct view of the correlations within an entangled quantum state. Normally, researchers have to perform many measurements and use the results to reconstruct what is happening. This kind of imaging could make complicated quantum states easier to study and control. In the future, techniques like this could be useful in areas such as quantum computing, quantum communication and highly precise measurements. And there is something genuinely strange about the picture. It isn’t a photograph of an invisible connection between two particles. It is a picture of what their quantum possibilities look like when they interfere. At the smallest scales, nature does not behave like the familiar objects we see around us. Particles can exist in quantum states where probabilities interfere, outcomes become correlated, and patterns emerge that have no simple everyday equivalent. For something we cannot see with our eyes, the fact that its behavior can now be turned into an image is remarkable. Source: Scientific Reports / Physical Review Letters