Dennis Whyte

It's like, what the heck is going on with this, right?

But we teach this all the time in physics classes, right?

So, what was going on?

Well, there's just a few things.

There's just a few kind of things unchecked, but basically we're at the end of discovery because we've figured out how everything works.

Because we've got basically Newtonian mechanics and we've got Maxwell's equations, which describe basically how matter gets pushed around and how electromagnetism works.

Holy cow, what a feat.

But there are these few nagging things.

Like, for instance, there's certain kinds of rocks that for some reason, like if you put a photographic plate around it, it gets burned or it gets an image on it.

Like, well, where's the electromagnetism in that?

There's no electromagnetic properties of this rock.

Oh, yeah.

And the other thing, too, is that if I take this wonderful classical derivation of something that is hot, about how it releases radiation...

Everything looks fantastic.

Perfect match.

Oh, until I get to high frequencies of the light.

And then it basically just, the whole thing falls apart.

In fact, it gives a physical explanation, which is total nonsense.

It tells you that every object should basically be producing an infinite amount of heat.

Mm-hmm.