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Back to the Drawing Board Max Planck’s Maxim By Rik van Hemmen he physicist Max Planck (actually born as Today, this may well be humanity’s most Marx Planck) is best known for the de- important maxim, sort of the Maximum velopment of his universal constant Maxim. Today, there is an existential Tthat
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