A formula he himself considered a mathematical trick. An act of desperation, born in a single sleepless night in the year 1900. And yet: the foundation of an entirely new physics.Max Planck believed in order, in laws, in a world that could be calculated like a precise clockwork. He was no rebel. He was a man of classical physics, of Bach and Brahms, of quiet certainties. But when a stubborn riddle — the glow of heated bodies — defied every known law, only one radical assumption rem...