Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-07-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 8 Jun 2020, at 15:56, John Clark wrote: > > Alan Grayson aka Mr.Carl Sagan co-author wrote: > > > you seem to deliberately ignore the fact that in physics we use idealized > > cases to reach important insights. > > Far from ignoring it for years I've been trying to convince Bruno that

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-08 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 10:24:18 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 7:57:33 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> Alan Grayson aka Mr.Carl Sagan co-author wrote: >> >> *> you seem to deliberately ignore the fact that in physics we use >>> idealized cases to reach

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-08 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 7:57:33 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > Alan Grayson aka Mr.Carl Sagan co-author wrote: > > *> you seem to deliberately ignore the fact that in physics we use >> idealized cases to reach important insights.* > > > Far from ignoring it for years I've been trying to

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-08 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 9:40:46 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 7:57:33 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> Alan Grayson aka Mr.Carl Sagan co-author wrote: >> >> *> you seem to deliberately ignore the fact that in physics we use >>> idealized cases to reach

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-08 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 7:57:33 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > Alan Grayson aka Mr.Carl Sagan co-author wrote: > > *> you seem to deliberately ignore the fact that in physics we use >> idealized cases to reach important insights.* > > > Far from ignoring it for years I've been trying to

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-08 Thread John Clark
Alan Grayson aka Mr.Carl Sagan co-author wrote: *> you seem to deliberately ignore the fact that in physics we use > idealized cases to reach important insights.* Far from ignoring it for years I've been trying to convince Bruno that mathematical approximations help us understand physical

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-08 Thread Alan Grayson
On Monday, June 8, 2020 at 4:27:10 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > Alan Grayson aka Mr.Carl Sagan co-author wrote: > > >> > *John Clark **refuses to admit that MATHEMATICS is often applied to >> the POSTULATES of physics, * >> > > Postulates yields results that are exact and that's why

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-08 Thread John Clark
Alan Grayson aka Mr.Carl Sagan co-author wrote: > > *John Clark **refuses to admit that MATHEMATICS is often applied to the > POSTULATES of physics, * > Postulates yields results that are exact and that's why physics doesn't have any, only mathematics does. > *to give important new insights.*

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-07 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 11:31:39 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 11:15:12 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 1:08 PM Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> *>No point in arguing with bias and stupidity.* >> >> >> You're right again Mr.Carl Sagan

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-06 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 11:15:12 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 1:08 PM Alan Grayson > wrote: > > *>No point in arguing with bias and stupidity.* > > > You're right again Mr.Carl Sagan co-author. > > John K Clark > You mean no perfect conic sections as orbits?

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-06 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 1:08 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *>No point in arguing with bias and stupidity.* You're right again Mr.Carl Sagan co-author. John K Clark > > On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 8:09:14 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:43 AM Alan Grayson wrote: >>

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-06 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 8:09:14 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:43 AM Alan Grayson > wrote: > > > *Kepler deduced from measurements that Mars has an elliptical orbit, >> whereas Newton's law of gravitation implies much more; namely, that they >> can move in

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-06 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:43 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > *Kepler deduced from measurements that Mars has an elliptical orbit, > whereas Newton's law of gravitation implies much more; namely, that they > can move in conic sections.* If gravity is an inverse square law that follows Newton's rules

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-06 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 7:31:44 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:21 AM Alan Grayson > wrote: > > >> >> Oh and you forgot IHA. >>> >> > > > IHA =? AG >> > > Mr.Carl Sagan co-author, it means I Hate Acronyms. > > John K Clark > Is "HUP" beyond your pay grade?

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-06 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:21 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > >> Oh and you forgot IHA. >> > > IHA =? AG > Mr.Carl Sagan co-author, it means I Hate Acronyms. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-06 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 7:03:02 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 8:44 AM Alan Grayson > wrote: > > > *There's a simple choice in this matter. Someone who denies that QM has >> postulates from which the HUP is implied, either knows little or nothing >> about QM, or

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-06 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 8:44 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > *There's a simple choice in this matter. Someone who denies that QM has > postulates from which the HUP is implied, either knows little or nothing > about QM, or won't acknowledge it due to dishonesty. AG * > Mr.Carl Sagan co-author, you can

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-06 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 4:23:54 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 10:33 AM Alan Grayson > wrote: > > > *No point in arguing with a dishonest person. AG * > > > I agree, Mr.Carl Sagan co-author. > the > John K Clark > There's a simple choice in this matter. Someone

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-06 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 10:33 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > *No point in arguing with a dishonest person. AG * I agree, Mr.Carl Sagan co-author. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-05 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 4:25:01 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 6:58 PM Alan Grayson > wrote: > > *> Some other examples: using Newton's law of gravitation, one can >> mathematically DERIVE the result that planet trajectories are conic >> sections; using mathematics

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-05 Thread John Clark
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 6:58 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Some other examples: using Newton's law of gravitation, one can > mathematically DERIVE the result that planet trajectories are conic > sections; using mathematics one can show that Newton's equations of motion, > Hamilton's equations of

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-04 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 11:03:17 PM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 2:45:42 PM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> These are questions that can be looked up in something such as Wikipedia. >> >> LC >> > > Here, presumably, is the derivation of Planck's

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-06-03 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 2:45:42 PM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > These are questions that can be looked up in something such as Wikipedia. > > LC > Here, presumably, is the derivation of Planck's blackbody radiation formula. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law#Derivation .

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-31 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 6:41:35 PM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 9:31:19 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 9:07:12 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:46 AM Alan Grayson >>> wrote: >>> >>> *>

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-30 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 9:31:19 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 9:07:12 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:46 AM Alan Grayson >> wrote: >> >> *> Clark, since you claim implicitly to having a serious understanding of >>> E, can you

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-29 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 5/29/2020 8:51 AM, smitra wrote: On 29-05-2020 16:11, Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 6:26:20 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 6:28 PM Alan Grayson wrote: _> Wiki has a good article on this. Oddly, when I took E courses, undergraduate and graduate, I

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-29 Thread smitra
On 29-05-2020 16:11, Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 6:26:20 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 6:28 PM Alan Grayson wrote: _> Wiki has a good article on this. Oddly, when I took E courses, undergraduate and graduate, I don't recall this issue ever being

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-29 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 9:07:12 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:46 AM Alan Grayson > wrote: > > *> Clark, since you claim implicitly to having a serious understanding of >> E, can you give a proof of Planck's BB radiation law? AG * >> > > Of course I can't!

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-29 Thread John Clark
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:46 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Clark, since you claim implicitly to having a serious understanding of > E, can you give a proof of Planck's BB radiation law? AG * > Of course I can't! Mathematicians prove things, physicists don't. Physicists propose theories and if it

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-29 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 8:39:43 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 8:11:12 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 6:26:20 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 6:28 PM Alan Grayson >>> wrote: >>> >>> *> Wiki

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-29 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 8:11:12 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 6:26:20 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 6:28 PM Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> *> Wiki has a good article on this. Oddly, when I took E courses, >>> undergraduate and

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-29 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, May 29, 2020 at 6:26:20 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 6:28 PM Alan Grayson > wrote: > > *> Wiki has a good article on this. Oddly, when I took E courses, >> undergraduate and graduate, I don't recall this issue ever being discussed, >> at least not in

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-29 Thread John Clark
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 6:28 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Wiki has a good article on this. Oddly, when I took E courses, > undergraduate and graduate, I don't recall this issue ever being discussed, > at least not in detail. I don't recall any detailed discussion of Planck's > radiation law; that

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-28 Thread Alan Grayson
On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 2:45:42 PM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > These are questions that can be looked up in something such as Wikipedia. > > LC > Wiki has a good article on this. Oddly, when I took E courses, undergraduate and graduate, I don't recall this issue ever being

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-28 Thread Lawrence Crowell
These are questions that can be looked up in something such as Wikipedia. LC On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 4:16:47 AM UTC-5, Alan Grayson wrote: > > When one solves ME's, one gets continuous wave solutions. But somehow they > give the wrong prediction for BB radiation. The correct solution

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-28 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 3:16:47 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > When one solves ME's, one gets continuous wave solutions. But somehow they > give the wrong prediction for BB radiation. The correct solution requires > quantizing the energy packets into discrete packets of energy. But

Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-05-27 Thread Alan Grayson
When one solves ME's, one gets continuous wave solutions. But somehow they give the wrong prediction for BB radiation. The correct solution requires quantizing the energy packets into discrete packets of energy. But prior to the advent of QED, in 1900, how did Planck incorporate this