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2 unusual facts about Ultraviolet catastrophe


Ultraviolet catastrophe

In 1998, The Chemical Brothers released a DJ mix CD called Brothers Gonna Work It Out, which featured a song by a San Francisco techno / breakbeat band named The Ultraviolet Catastrophe.

The term "ultraviolet catastrophe" was first used in 1911 by Paul Ehrenfest, although the concept goes back to 1900 with the first derivation of the \lambda^{-4} dependence of the Rayleigh–Jeans law; the word "ultraviolet" refers to the fact that the problem appears in the short wavelength region of the electromagnetic spectrum.



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