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THE view of physicists on the question of distribution of black-body radiation is that the equipartition principle cannot apply to the problem, and that “each step from matter to ether, or back again, demanded the quantum factor, and does demand it wherever such interaction occurs”, as Sir Oliver Lodge recently expressed it in NATURE, June 26, p. 891.
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GIANFRANCESCHI, G. On the Law of Radiation. Nature 118, 302 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118302a0
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