The smallest time interval ever defined. Named after theoretical physicist Max Planck (1858-1947), Planck time is 10-43 seconds; however, the only measurement ever actually made was more than ...

Before that threshold (specifically, before the end of the first Planck time after the Big Bang began), it's tough to make any informed conclusions because we have no way of testing anything at all.

Max Planck was told that there was nothing new to be discovered in physics. He was about to embark on a career in physics that would set that idea on its ear. Planck was an extremely successful ...

In 1899 Max Planck became a professor at the University of Berlin, after nine years at the University of Munich and Kiel University, in Germany. In his research there, he turned to a thermodynamic ...

Max Planck Institutes focus on research fields that are particularly innovative, or that are especially demanding in terms of funding or time requirements. And their research spectrum is continually ...

A study trip to Berlin made a formative impression on him, giving him the opportunity to attend lectures by the leading physicists of his time, Hermann von Helmholtz and Gustav Kirchhoff. Planck ...