Einstein's physical intuition led him to note that Planck's oscillator
energies had an incorrect zero point. He modified Planck's hypothesis by
stating that the lowest energy state of an oscillator is equal to
1⁄2hf, to half the energy spacing between levels. This argument, which was made in 1913 in collaboration with
Otto Stern, was based on the thermodynamics of a diatomic molecule which can split apart into two free atoms.
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