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Originally Posted by sjastro
This has turned out to be infamous quote Craig. 
One only has to look the treatment of black body radiation at a fundamental level.
Classical physics turned black body radiation into an ultraviolet catastrophe.
It was the first step towards quantum mechanics.
Regards
Steven
PS. The dreaded ultraviolet catastrophe turned up in Quantum Field theory as well which led to the concept of renormalization. |
Ouch !
PS: Well .. there ya go … classical thinking gave birth to QM ! .. More history …