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Planck's law is one of the most basic in physics, and is widely used to explain what governs the heat transfer between two bodies. The fact that the law breaks down when the objects are very close to each other has been theorized for many years, but no one has been able to demonstrate scientifically that this is possible until now. In a groundbreaking investigation, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have managed to prove just that, and have learned that the heat transfer can be 1,000 times greater than the law predicts.“Planck was very careful, saying his theory was only valid for large systems. So he kind of anticipated this [breakdown], but most people don't know this,†the MIT Carl Richard Soderberg professor of power engineering Gang Chen says. The expert is also the director of the Pappalardo Micro and Nano Engineering Laboratories. The find could have significant applications in the field of electronics, and especially in hard-drive des!
igns, where the recording heads could be made a lot more effective. Additionally, new methods of harnessing energy from sources that are otherwise lost could also be devised, significantly boosting the planet's overall energy-production abilities. Thus far, building such systems has relied heav...
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