id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qlei7ln3vjh6bak5uey47whwsa Molly Kao Unification and the Quantum Hypothesis in 1900–1913 2015 18 .pdf application/pdf 4894 351 61 to understand the unification here is in terms of informational relevance: on the assumption of the quantum hypothesis, phenomena that were previously thought to be unrelated The idea that unification is a virtue of a scientific theory has a long history in philosophy of First, consider what I refer to as the quantum hypothesis, QH: this is the idea that radiation physical phenomena can be thought of as measuring or constraining the numerical value of h, by providing information about the value one is likely to obtain in the various cases. experiments on phenomena providing information about one another by yielding agreeing one type of phenomenon thus provided information about the measured value of h via a understanding of Planck's "energy quanta." Gearhart has provided an overview of the history consider the equation Einstein describes in terms of our discussion of informational relevance. The quantum theory of Planck, Einstein, ./cache/work_qlei7ln3vjh6bak5uey47whwsa.pdf ./txt/work_qlei7ln3vjh6bak5uey47whwsa.txt