host: hiram lewis, you talk about the physicist max planck in your book, why? guest: because he was an inventor of quantum theory, one of the great theories of all time and he was a practicing christian. hard-core religious believer there is this bizarre idea and i can't believe anyone believes it that there is a war between science and religion. it's preposterous. if you look at every great scientist throughout history including darwin them him and religious believers. albert einstein, galileo , copernicus, go through the rollcall of great scientist route history and every single one has been a religious believer. there is no war or to the only time they is when you have people step outside the boundary, when you have religious people trying to make scientific statements and trim the book of genesis into a biology footprint and that's where we run into problem or when you have scientists making religious claims. science is the realm of the empirical and repeatable, what you can find in a laboratory. religion is the realm of the ultimate. site is on capable of

but a constant of nature the planck constant denoted by a small age described for the 1st time by max planck around 1900 so what is the planck constant. mccance just dance and before you can think of it has the smallest possible unit of energy consider the energy coming out of a car battery or an electric socket on the walls and if you were to divide that into lots of small amounts the smallest possible amount would be the plug constant it's a fundamental constants of nature it's involved in many aspects of physics. one reason why we can't take the planck's constant as the definition of this mass is because the planck constant can be expressed in terms of the kilogram and 2 other as a unit that's why we were able to establish a relationship between the value of the cube a gram and the plank constant so any of. this can be done using a watch balance for example it's a highly complex instrument that's been used since the 1980 s. to measure the planck constant as precisely as possible. there are only a handful of these scales worldwide this one is in the united states at the national institute

but a constant of nature the planck constant denoted by a small age described for the 1st time by max planck around one.

see months experiment has been drawing scientists from around the world the team from the max planck institute are here to see whether his changes to the ecosystem are having an effect. as big enough or not assume that the whole system circulation is much more active that there's a more active exchange with the atmosphere but in the end more carbon will accumulate in the soil due to the photosynthesis of the livelier grasses that will grow here than measurements the seamounts have taken show that the soil temperature in their ice park is already staying cooler. or i don't want to leave my grandchildren and their children with this miserable landscape which only mosquitoes like i'd rather leave them with the proper species rich nature of our ancestors the kind of nature that stabilizes and feeds humans are. going to. force him off no idea is too big he can imagine woolly mammoths once again roaming through yakutia one day geneticists at harvard university are already preparing to support this project. limits why am i next this is d.w. new life then i'll be back at the top of the next

but a constant of nature the plank constant denoted by a small age described for the 1st time by max planck around 1900 so what is the planck constant. just dance and before you can think of it has the smallest possible unit of energy if you consider the energy coming out of a car battery or an electric socket on the walls and if you were to divide that into lots of small amounts the smallest possible amount would be the plug constant it's a fundamental constants of nature it's involved in many aspects of physics. when one reason why we can't take the planck's constant as the definition of this mass is because the planck constant can be expressed in terms of the kilogram and 2 other units that's why we were able to establish a relationship between the value of the cube a gram and the plumb constant. this can be done using a watch balance for example it's a highly complex instrument that's been used since the 1980 s. to measure the planck constant as precisely as possible. there are only a handful of these scales worldwide this one is in the united states at the national institute of standar