Planck admitted it himself that it was a hack he just postulated that there had to be quants. It was Einstein when he explained 1905 the photoelectric effect that quanta were accepted as "real"
Planck admitted it himself that it was a hack he just postulated that there had to be quants. It was Einstein when he explained 1905 the photoelectric effect that quanta were accepted as "real"
Prof. Partha Ghose in his paper The Story of Bose, Photon Spin and Indistinguishability does a nice walkthrough of Bose's derivation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195940