Actually, there are five things that every idmer is assumed to know, and
will hereby get tossed around as analytic to our very existence:
1. the special theory of relativity
2. the second law of thermodynamics
3. the Nyquist sampling theorem (described above)
4. the asymptotic equipartition theorem (rel. information to entropy)
5. the fact that Pete Namlook is a god, above all other
;=)
Not QCD or the General Theory of Relativity?
Actually "Ultraviolet Catastrophe" is a neat physics-history-aware
name. This was one of the outstanding phyics problems (dealing with
the spectra of black body radiation -- pre-modern thermo theory had an
ultraviolet catastrophe) that lead to thte modern theory of
thermodynamics.
Just a Quantum Fluctuation, this message.
Albert Boulanger