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• n  the electromagnetic radiation that would be radiated from an ideal black body; the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of a black body depends only on temperature and is determined by Planck's radiation law

• blackbody radiation

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• Things I’ve Never Quite Understood: Microscopic Picture of Blackbody Radiation [Uncertain Principles]
  I’m putting together slides for a TED audition talk in a couple of weeks, about how the history of quantum mechanics is like a crossword puzzle. This involves talking about black-body radiation, which is the problem that kicked off QM– to explain the spectrum of light emitted by hot objects, Max Planck had to resort…
  Sept. 30, 2013 - ScienceBlogs