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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.

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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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