REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - December 1920

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🗓️ 9 December 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In the early twentieth century physicists had become deeply entangled in the implications of the quantum theory. Was the world at its smallest scales continuous, or built of discrete units? It all began with Max Planck. His Nobel Prize was the subject of a Nature news article in 1920. Originally aired 19/12/2013.

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0:00.0	On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me
0:03.9	Rip up the chariot
0:05.6	Forget about the telly
0:07.6	Let's play scratch cards
0:11.1	Coins out to scratching
0:12.6	Everybody laughing better not be cheating
0:15.3	And the chance to win a pound or three
0:18.2	Add some play to Christmas
0:20.1	With scratch cards from the National Lottery.
0:22.7	Please gift responsibly. Rules and procedures apply.
0:24.7	Players and gifters must be 18 or over.
0:26.2	And the chance to win a pound or three.
0:32.2	This podcast originally aired in 2013.
0:36.3	This is the Nature Pastcast, each month raiding nature's archive and looking at key moments
0:41.3	in science.
0:42.4	This show rewinds to 1920 and tracks the nascent field of quantum physics.
1:00.6	Nature, Thursday, December 16th, 1920.
1:04.7	Contents. Instruments for the navigation of aircraft.
1:06.6	The study of weeds.
1:09.1	Tragic death faint of a snake.
1:11.5	The quantum theory.
1:25.9	The early 1920s is an interesting time because it's a time when the basic idea of the quantum hypothesis of energy being divided into these little packets,
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