https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2020-000104-4
Regular Article
Why was it possible to understand the quantum world?
University of Heidelberg,
Heidelberg, Germany
a e-mail: joerg.huefner@freenet.de
Received:
30
May
2020
Accepted:
27
October
2020
Published online: 21 December 2020
The question in the title is answered by analyzing a specific case, Max Planck’s discovery of the radiation law. Trial and error as method of research and a rather moderate enlargement of the “knowledge space” of classical physics had been sufficient to unravel the secrets of quantum phenomena.
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