{"product_id":"max-planck-and-the-quantum-clayton-louis-turnage-9798184820156","title":"Max Planck and the Quantum Break: Blackbody Radiation, Planck's Constant, and the Birth of Quantum Reality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if the universe is not smooth all the way down?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the nineteenth century, physics seemed almost complete. Newton had explained motion. Maxwell had unified electricity, magnetism, and light. Thermodynamics had revealed the laws of heat and energy. To many scientists, nature looked like a grand machine whose remaining mysteries were only details.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen came a problem hidden inside something ordinary: the glow of heated matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy does hot iron turn red, then orange, then white? Why does a heated object emit light in a precise pattern? Why did classical physics fail when it tried to explain blackbody radiation?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this crisis stepped Max Planck, a disciplined and conservative physicist who had no desire to overthrow classical reality. But in 1900, while trying to solve the blackbody radiation problem, Planck introduced a radical idea: energy is not always exchanged continuously. It comes in discrete units - quanta.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith one equation, (E = hv), Planck opened the quantum age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMax Planck and the Quantum Break\u003c\/b\u003e tells the dramatic origin story of quantum theory: the rise of classical physics, the blackbody crisis, the ultraviolet catastrophe, Planck's constant, Boltzmann's statistical ghost, Einstein's light quantum, and the first crack in the old worldview.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the gateway to \u003ci\u003eThe Foundations of Quantum Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, a series exploring the rebels, realists, and visionaries who challenged the meaning of the quantum world - from Einstein and Bohr to de Broglie, Bohm, Bell, Everett, Hiley, Wheeler, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore hidden variables, many worlds, nonlocality, or the measurement problem, there was Planck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd before quantum reality became a mystery, it began as a glow in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clayton Louis Turnage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184820156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Clayton Louis Turnage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997887148287,"sku":"9798184820156","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/max-planck-and-the-quantum-clayton-louis-turnage-9798184820156","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}