Editor:
Barry Evans’ column (“Science. It Works Etc.,” Aug. 24) should have mentioned that Planck’s beautiful curve represents the origin of Quantum Mechanics.
That it precisely fits the Cosmic Microwave Background proves that Quantum Mechanics works exactly across all expansive space and time, originating in the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. Of course, science does not explain everything. The Big Bang’s origin remains a mystery.
Don Garlick, Fieldbrook
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I hesitate to pick nits with my esteemed Field Notes predecessor, but the origin of quantum physics should be credited to Robert Kirchhoff, whose 1860 theory (and law) regarding blackbody radiation contradicted classical physics.