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Let's explore how a tiny lab accident in 1887 (by Heinrich Hertz) unlocked the quantum revolution. This is a story of how Philipp Lenard, Max Planck, and Robert Millikan helped Einstein discover the quantum nature of light.

Chapters:
00:00 The tiny lab accident
02:30 The brilliant experiment with electrons
05:58 The shocking discovery
07:27 Lenard's trigger hypothesis
09:03 Trigger hypothesis is in trouble
10:13 A revolutionary tool
11:40 Max Planck's act of despair (using water analogy)
16:14 Einstein's epiphany
21:13 Challenges to Einstein's revolutionary idea
23:59 The last straw or was it?
29:58 The writing on the wall

Papers:
Max Planck's 1900 Paper on black body radiaion
http://strangepaths.com/files/planck1...

Einstein's 1905 Papers
https://einsteinpapers.press.princeto...

Music: Epidemic sound
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