Now two engineers at Cambridge University claim to have solved the puzzle—and proved Rayleigh wrong.

而现在，剑桥大学的两名工程师宣布他们已经解决了这个难题—而且还证明瑞利勋爵的猜测是错的。

Rayleigh knew that a kettle makes that sound when steam jets through the hole in a thick lid that has a gap in the middle.

瑞利勋爵知道水壶发出声响是由于水蒸气穿过厚厚盖子中间有空隙的孔所致。

Once the frequency of light got into the ultraviolet range or higher, the Rayleigh-Jeans law didn’t fit the results of experiments at all.

一旦光的频率进入紫外线范围或更高，Rayleigh-Jeans 定律就完全不符合实验结果了。

Once the frequency of light got into the ultraviolet range or higher, the Rayleigh-Jeans law didn't fit the results of experiments at all.

一旦光的频率达到一定程度的紫外线辐射或更高，瑞利-吉斯定律永远不会对应于实际结果。

Even worse, if you summed up the contributions of higher and higher frequencies to calculate the total power emitted by a blackbody, the Rayleigh-Jeans law predicted that you’d find infinite power.

更糟糕的是，如果你将越来越高的频率的贡献相加来计算黑体发出的总功率，瑞利-金斯定律预测你会发现无穷大的功率。

The equation they came up with, known as the Rayleigh-Jeans law, predicted that the higher the frequency of the radiation – and therefore, the shorter the wavelength – the higher the intensity.

他们提出的方程式被称为瑞利-金斯定律，预测辐射频率越高——因此波长越短——强度就越高。