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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS, (April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947) was a German physicist who discovered quantum physics, initiating a revolution in natural science and philosophy. He is regarded as the founder of quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Planck came from a traditional, intellectual family. His paternal great-grandfather and grandfather were both theology professors in Göttingen; his father was a law professor in Kiel and Munich; and his paternal uncle was a judge.
Planck was born in Kiel, Holstein, to Johann Julius Wilhelm Planck and his second wife, Emma Patzig. He was baptised with the name of Karl Ernst Ludwig Marx Planck; of his given names, Marx (a now obsolete variant of Markus or maybe simply an error for Max, which is actually short for Maximilian) was indicated as the primary name. However, by the age of ten he signed with the name Max and used this for the rest of his life.
He was the sixth child in the family, though two of his siblings were from his father's first marriage. Among his earliest memories was the marching of Prussian and Austrian troops into Kiel during the Danish-Prussian war of 1864. In 1867 the family moved to Munich, and Planck enrolled in the Maximilians gymnasium school, where he came under the tutelage of Hermann Müller, a mathematician who took an interest in the youth, and taught him astronomy and mechanics as well as mathematics. It was from Müller that Planck first learned the principle of conservation of energy. Planck graduated early, at age 17. This is how Planck first came in contact with the field of physics.
Albert Einstein ( /ˈælbərt ˈaɪnstaɪn/; German: [ˈalbɐt ˈaɪnʃtaɪn] ( listen); 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics. While best known for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"), he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics.
Near the beginning of his career, Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. This led to the development of his special theory of relativity. He realized, however, that the principle of relativity could also be extended to gravitational fields, and with his subsequent theory of gravitation in 1916, he published a paper on the general theory of relativity. He continued to deal with problems of statistical mechanics and quantum theory, which led to his explanations of particle theory and the motion of molecules. He also investigated the thermal properties of light which laid the foundation of the photon theory of light. In 1917, Einstein applied the general theory of relativity to model the structure of the universe as a whole.
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Plot: Inside the head of a geeky teenage boy, a group of scientists lead by Albert Einstein, are trying to find the ultimate approach to charm the boy's dream girl. They do the calculations, he acts them out. But he soon discovers that mathematical formulas might not be the best way to win a girl's heart.
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Genres: ,So the start, is my seed.
And thirty-seven thousand feet, forwards, backwards, and underneath.
Your last word turns, like a cyclone, just outside my window.
Your good advice all tied around my ankle.
Had to go, had to take off, and hide myself from everyone.
So their reasons, won't become my reasons.
'Cause they're talking, they're talking, talkin' again.
And the chain reaction,
like a slow wave crashin',
to come and change everything and wash me away.
So I make way for some chaos.
The ripple on the surface sends me secrets,
and I keep them.
Like a reoccurring dream,
of Max Planck and you're running rings around me.
But you can't solve me.
And you're trying, you're trying, trying again.
I need a chain reaction,
like a slow wave crashin'.
To come and change everything and wash me away.
We stumble in the dark, stumble in the dark.
And this is how it starts, this is how it starts, starts.
You carry your escape everywhere,
just in case you find yourself there, find yourself there.
And a chain reaction (chain reaction),
like a slow wave crashin' (slow wave crashin'),
would come and change everything and wash me away, away, away, away.
Wash me away, 'n' wash me away.