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152 CHAPTER 33. MOTIVES
2. Ultraviolet catastrophe of blackbody radiation.
3. Constancy of speed of light independent of observer speed: Michelson-
Morley paradox.
4. d’Alembert’s paradox of zero drag of inviscid flow.
The reactions to the forces of paradox and catastrophe were, respectively:
1. Molecular statistics of statistical mechanics.
2. Microscopic statistics of energy quanta.
3. Lorentz transformation of space-time.
4. Boundary layer as origin of turbulence.
The reactions came with the high price of giving up the most fundamental
aspects of classical physics of
• causality and determinism,
• reality of space-time.
• large effect from small cause.
The sacrifices were monumental and had a devastating effect on modern
physics letting scientific values be corrupted in politically controled climate
science with consent from scientific academies.
33.1 Summary of Motives
We collect the main scientific motives:
• Boltzmann introduced statistics to explain the irreversibility of the 2nd
Law.
• Planck introduced statistics of energy quanta to avoid the ultraviolet
catastrophe.
• Einstein sold out space-time to solve the apparent paradox of the independence
of the speed of light to an observer speed, by introducing an
unphysical Lorentz transformation of space-time, to boost his career as
scientist from zero.