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Planck's constant has the dimensions of energy multiplied by time.
h=6.62606957x10^-34 erg.s
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You should have seen how far off my first try was. I had to edit to make the meaning clearer and still missed the mark.
Max Planck's h is a discrete amount of energy, maybe fundamental was the wrong word to use. The v is of course the multipler.
The OP asked a question. What is energy? With Max Planck's h we have a very small discrete amount of energy to consider. I read that Planck was disturbed by any physical interpretation of h. If someone can explain what h is instead of just being an amount, it would be an explanation for one manifestation of energy.
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For optical photons E=hv, indicating a fundamental measure of energy.
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I must have misread something along the way and took Max Planck's h ( a quantum of action ) to be more fundamental, more general, than the photon as a quantum of action.
Planck's constant is a proportionality constant and as pantheory pointed out, the h is theoretical. It must be impossible to detect, or even emit one h, so it can't be verified as an entity.
So, what is the lowest energy single photon that can be detected?
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Isn't the quantum a smaller measure of energy than a photon?
Can't photons be different multiples of quanta?
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What is energy, exactly?
in Classical Physics
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This is not really my point, but someone might find it interesting:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/09/why-is-there-energy-and-what-it-isnt.html#more