Sublime

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are … part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” — Max Planck (1858–1947), physicist

The German physicist Max Planck calculated the electric field in equilibrium in a hot box. To do this he used a trick: he imagined that the energy of the field is distributed in “quanta,” that is, in packets or lumps of energy. The procedure led to a result that perfectly reproduced what was measured (and therefore must be in some fashion correct)

Einstein took literally the idea of the older German physicist Max Planck that light could be treated as if it came in little packets.

This is what physicist Max Planck (the father of quantum mechanics), Einstein, and others observed: No matter how much you know, there is an infinite amount of chance and randomness in the universe.

This is what physicist Max Planck (the father of quantum mechanics), Einstein, and others observed: No matter how much you know, there is an infinite amount of chance and randomness in the universe.

This is what physicist Max Planck (the father of quantum mechanics), Einstein, and others observed: No matter how much you know, there is an infinite amount of chance and randomness in the universe.

Erwin Schödinger: “The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”

Einstein invented everything he was ever going to invent by the age of 25. The rest of his life was spent in a futile chase to find a force he couldn’t find called the Fifth Force—the unifying force.