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The Thermodynamics in Planck's Law

Authors: Constantinos Ragazas;

The Thermodynamics in Planck's Law

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Quantum Physics has its historical beginnings with Planck's derivation of his formula for blackbody radiation, more than one hundred years ago. In his derivation, Planck used what latter became known as energy quanta. In spite of the best efforts at the time and for decades later, a more continuous approach to derive this formula had not been found. Along with Einstein's Photon Hypothesis, the Quantization of Energy Hypothesis thus became the foundations for much of the Physics that followed. This physical view has shaped our understanding of the Universe and has resulted in mathematical certainties that are counterintuitive and contrary to our experience. Physics provides mathematical models that seek to describe what is the Universe. We believe mathematical models of what is -as with past metaphysical attempts -are a never ending search getting us deeper and deeper into the 'rabbit's hole' [Frank 2010]. We show in this Chapter that a quantum-view of the Universe is not necessary. We argue that a world without quanta is not only possible, but desirable. We do not argue, however, with the mathematical formalism of Physics -just the physical view attached to this. We will present in this Chapter a mathematical derivation of Planck's Law that uses simple continuous processes, without needing energy quanta and discrete statistics. This Law is not true by Nature, but by Math. In our view, Planck's Law becomes a Rosetta Stone that enables us to translate known physics into simple and sensible formulations. To this end the quantity eta we introduce is fundamental. This is the time integral of energy that is used in our mathematical derivation of Planck's Law. In terms of this prime physis quantity eta (acronym for energy-time-action), we are able to define such physical quantities as energy, force, momentum, temperature and entropy. Planck's constant h (in units of energy-time) is such a quantity eta. Whereas currently h is thought as action, in our derivation of Planck's Law it is more naturally viewed as accumulation of energy. And while h is a constant, the quantity eta that appears in our formulation is a variable. Starting with eta, Basic Law can be mathematically derived and not be physically posited. Is the Universe continuous or discrete? In my humble opinion this is a false dichotomy. It presents us with an impossible choice between two absolute views. And as it is always the case, making one side absolute leads to endless fabrications denying the opposite side. The Universe is neither continuous nor discrete because the Universe is both continuous and discrete. Our view of the Universe is not the Universe. The Universe simply is. In The Interaction of Measurement [Ragazas, 2010h] we argue with mathematical certainty that we

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