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(although the idea that light might come in discrete packets had earlier been floated by the great Ludwig Boltzmann in 1877). I have come to admire Planck even more as I have learned about his life. Like Einstein, he was an unpaid lecturer and was not offered an academic position after completing his

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s about how the principle of the relativity of inertial frames can be made consistent with the existence of a minimal length scale, taken to be the Planck length, Ip[1, 2, 3]. It may also be seen as making possible a maximum momenta for an individual particle. Over the almost decade since it was first

0 3.1 Non-locality 10 3.2 Boosts and events 11 3.3 Transverse length contraction and relativity 12 3.4 A classical locality paradox 12 4 Quantum theory of a free relativistic particle 13 4.1 Bases in Hilbert space 13 4.2 Dynamics in momentum space 14 4.3 Dynamics in position space 14

(DSR) the action of the Lorentz group on momen- tum eigenstates is deformed to preserve a maximal momentum or minimal length, supposed equal to the Planck length, to, = VO. The classical and quantum dynamics of a particle prop- agating in ti-Minkowski spacetime is discussed in order to examine an appare

e. In 1918, when Fermi graduated from high school in Rome, the possi- bilities open to a brilliant young scientific mind were far less constrained. Quantum mechanics had just been born, new ideas were everywhere, and the rigorous mathematics necessary to deal with these ideas had not yet been developed

k had helped pioneer the quantum revolution by resolving the paradox of the spectrum of radiation emitted by atomic systems. So it was fitting that Planck should indirectly help resolve the paradoxical makeup of the nucleus. While he didn't himself spearhead the relevant research, he recognized the ta