num_pages: 127
description: One day in 1900, German physicist Max Planck told his son that he had made a breakthrough as important as Isaac Newton's discovery of the workings of the universe. Planck had reached the surprising conclusion that light behaves as if it is packaged in discrete amounts, or quanta, a seemingly simple observation that would lead to a powerful new field of physics called quantum mechanics.
language: English
title: Quantum Mechanics: The Physics of the Microscopic World - Course Guidebook
publisher: Great Courses