Dear Stan, The original equation that Planck discovered in 1900 that fitted the blackbody radiation spectra exactly is a natural law. That is why the physicists in the early decades of the 20th century called it the "Planck radiation law" (PRL). Of course, all laws are signs (and not reality itself) which I would identify with decent symbolic legisigns.
The so-called Planck distribution (PD) that I derived from PRL in 2008 at Rutgers by replacing its universal constants and temperature with 2 free parameters initially and later with 4 parameters with the help of one of my pre-med students, Kenneth So, is not a natural law like PRL but reflects, nevertheless, deep regularities (Thirdness) hidden behind many fields of inquiries from atomic physics (including blackbody radiation itself), to genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, glottometrics and now even to econometrics. So, it may be reasonable to conclude that PD is a type and PRL is one of its tokens. With all the best. Sung the > Sung, Howard -- > > Is the Planck model of light really a LAW of nature? Or just a model? > > STAN > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Sungchul Ji <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> In the attached file, I present evidence that the so-called >> 'econophysics' as currently formulated may be comparable to the Rayleigh- >> Jeans law in radiation physics that led to the ultraviolet catastrophe >> (UC). Just as Planck's original radiation law resolved UC in physics in >> the early decades of the 20th century, it appears to me that the extended >> version of Planck's law, called the Planck distribution (PD) (see the >> attached for references), may resolve the ultraviolet catastrophe of the >> second kind, this time in econometrics. >> >> Just as Planck's resolution of the UC of the first kind is associated >> with the introduction of the new concept of quantum of action into >> physics, so the >> resolution of the UC of the second kind by PD may introduce another new >> concept into the natural and human sciences -- that of ORGANIZATION as >> the >> action selecting a subset of events made available by random motions, >> quantified by the Planckian information, I_P, defined as the binary >> logarithm of the ratio between the Planckian distribution and the >> associated Gaussian distribution. >> >> With all the best. >> >> Sung >> _________________________________________________ >> Sungchul Ji, Ph.D. >> Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology >> Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology >> Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy >> Rutgers University >> Piscataway, N.J. 08855 >> 732-445-4701 >> >> www.conformon.net >> >> >> >
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