If you used Heisenberg's box cutter to open the impenetrable cardboard box and dump Schr�dinger's cat into a region governed only by classical physics, wouldn't the poor beast die instantly in the flash of an Ultraviolet catastrophe?
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The colourful term " ultraviolet catastrophe " was given by Paul Ehrenfest in 1911 to the paradoxical result that the total energy in the cavity tends to infinity when the equipartition theorem of classical statistical mechanics is ( mistakenly ) applied to black body radiation.
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:Not related, but a very famously wrong graph was the Ultraviolet catastrophe, a name given to the " expected " results when you calculate the wavelength of light emited by a blackbody radiation source compared to the intensity of the light.
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Since there are an infinite number of modes this implies infinite heat capacity ( infinite energy at any non-zero temperature ), as well as an unphysical spectrum of emitted radiation that grows without bound with increasing frequency, a problem known as the ultraviolet catastrophe.
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This is generally a sign for a missing piece in the theory, as in the ultraviolet catastrophe, renormalization, and instability of a hydrogen atom predicted by the Larmor formula . "-- 32 " "'05 : 45, 20 September 2012 ( UTC)
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But he did propose E = h? both as the solution for the ultraviolet catastrophe ( in 1905 ) and for the specific heat deviations from the Dulong-Petit law ( 1907 ), and his solutions were still not publicly accepted by any physicist in 1911, as described at the Photon article.
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Then came the ultraviolet catastrophe, which Einstein's and Plank's work solved, but in the process, they totally demonlished Newton . ( The laws based on Einstien's work reduce to Newton's laws at low speeds and low gravity; this is called the corrospondence principle ).
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The "'ultraviolet catastrophe "', also called the "'Rayleigh Jeans catastrophe "', was the prediction of late 19th century / early 20th century classical physics that an ideal black body at thermal equilibrium will emit radiation in all frequency ranges, emitting more energy as the frequency increases.
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Equations for these physical theories predict that the ball of mass of some quantity becomes infinite or increases without limit . "'This is generally a sign for a missing piece in the theory "', as in the ultraviolet catastrophe, renormalization, and instability of a hydrogen atom predicted by the Larmor formula . " ( bold mine ).
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This is the ultraviolet catastrophe-simple theory says that a black body ought to be emitting near-infinite amounts of high-frequency radiation, like UV . . . but, as is apparent, they don't really . ( They emit UV, yes-but emmitance tails off quite sharply as frequency increases; see : Image : Blackbodygraph . png ) A lot of early work in quantum physics stems from this question . . . Shimgray 18 : 50, 13 August 2005 ( UTC)
