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The Planck constant links a photon's energy to its frequency, and its value is fixed exactly.
Physics Facts, sourced to NIST.
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Light of a given color always carries the same energy per photon, and the Planck constant is the conversion factor. Blue photons carry more energy than red ones for exactly this reason, which is why ultraviolet light can damage skin and infrared cannot. The constant also underpins the modern definition of the kilogram, so it now has an exact value with no uncertainty attached.
The claim comes from NIST, and the page it comes from was read on 2026-08-27 to confirm it still says this.
This is not the kind of claim that goes out of date, which is why it was set as a puzzle rather than a fact with a shelf life.
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- SourceNIST
- CollectionPhysics Facts
- Difficultymedium
- Length75 letters, 21 of them different
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