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Boston studies in the philosophy of science

Matter and Force After Fifty Years of Quantum Theory [1963d]

Robert S. Cohen, John J. Stachel

Published Jan 1, 1979• 0 citations
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10.1007/978-94-009-9349-5_18

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This chapter presents the basic physical ideas that underpin the quantum theory. Historians place the beginnings of the quantum theory at 1900. That year Max Planck published his famous formula for the distribution of energy as a function of frequency in black-body radiation. Curiously, although radiation theory gave birth to quantum mechanics, the interaction of matter and electromagnetic radiation is a rather advanced topic in quantum mechanics and it took almost fifty years for an acceptable formulation to be achieved. One reason for this is that photons are quanta of the electromagnetic field, and the quantum theory of fields requires a relativistic treatment to be entirely successful. The corpuscular nature of light was only half of the input that gave birth to quantum mechanics. The other half concerns matter. Given that the discreteness of photons manifests itself during the emission and absorption process, it is not surprising to find that quantum oddities afflict the behaviour of material particles too.