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ultraviolet catastrophe

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ultraviolet catastrophe [¦əl·trə′vī·lət kə′tas·trə·fē]
(statistical mechanics)
The prediction of the Rayleigh-Jeans law that the energy radiated by a blackbody at extremely short wavelengths is extremely large, and the total energy radiated is infinite, whereas in reality it must be finite.


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