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Re:Mathematical Equations That Changed the World by cschmidt on Sunday March 09, 2014 @03:14PM (#7369531)
I think alokv28 meant statistical mechanics, rather than quantum mechanics.
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Re:Mathematical Equations That Changed the World by alokv28 on Monday March 10, 2014 @04:22AM (#7371815)
That relation ties together entropy, a previously macroscopic quantity, and discrete, countable energy states, first introduced via quantum mechanics.
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