Planck's Constant as Quantum of Energy via FractalWoman's Modified Unit Analysis

7 months ago

In this video I compare the conventional view of the Planck's constant as being merely a proportionality constant to solve the blackbody radiation problem vs FractalWoman's unique insight that Planck's constant may actually represent the minimum energy unit of ALL electromagnetic frequencies. In the conventional view, Max Planck's derived Planck's Law by assuming energy was quantized as E = n·h·f, where n is an integer number, h is Planck's constant, and f is the frequency of light. The issue here is the frequency has units of cycles per second, but the conventional formula ignores the cycles term. This makes the energy equation unbalanced since the units of energy will have a remaining cycle term.

By accounting for cycles via @FractalWoman's Modified Unit Analysis, it becomes apparent that the energy equation is actually a change in energy over time. This means that we need to balance out the equation by dividing by the cycles unit, which ultimately reinterprets Planck's constant as the energy per cycle. This is a grand simplification in the interpretation of light from "quantized frequencies" to "frequencies made up of quantized energy". I will be exploring this in the future, as it has far reaching implications for quantum physics.

FractalWoman links:

FractalWoman's videos on Planck's constant: https://peakd.com/hive-128780/@mes/cycles-planck-s-constant-and-the-true-nature-of-light
Modified Unit Analysis:

Planck's constant wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant

Timestamps:

MES Note on Planck's Constant: Quantum of action vs Quantum of energy: 0:00
FractalWoman links and Planck's Law derivation: 0:43
Planck's Law derivation involves quantizing energy as an integer multiplied by Planck's constant multiplied by frequency: 1:41
Frequency of quantized energy gives rise to the concepts "Wave-particle duality" and "photons": 2:47
FractalWoman aka Lori Gardi points out that frequency is in units "cycles per second": 3:50
Account for cycles means Planck's constant is the unit of energy that makes up ALL frequencies: 4:15
Figure showing 3 different wavelengths / frequencies of light per 1 unit of time: 5:25
Frequency is not quantized but made up of many quanta of energy: 6:29

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