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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Constantinos Ragazas
| fields = Mathematics, Foundations of physics
| workplaces = The Lawrenceville School
| known_for = Heterodox derivations of Planck's law and a "duration" view of time
}}

'''Constantinos Ragazas''' is a retired mathematics teacher and author known for a body of self-published writing on the foundations of physics, centered on Planck's law, thermodynamics, and the nature of time. He is listed in ''[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]''.

==Ideas==
Ragazas argues that Planck's blackbody-radiation law can be recovered as an exact mathematical identity and that Planck's constant is better understood as an accumulation of energy than as a quantum of action. A recurring theme in his work is that the Second Law of Thermodynamics implies every physical process, or "event", requires a lapse of time, so that physical time is intrinsically "duration" (t−s) rather than "instantiation" (t=s). He contrasts this with the instantaneous time coordinate of the (x,y,z,t) event in General Relativity, which he argues is in tension with thermodynamics.

==Work==
He has written a chapter, "The Thermodynamics in Planck's Law" (InTech, 2011), roughly seventeen papers on the viXra e-print archive, and several Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) essay-contest entries, including "The Metaphysics of Physics" (2012). His work is philosophically framed and published outside conventional peer-reviewed physics venues. He is associated with The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, where he taught mathematics.

==External links==
* [https://vixra.org/author/constantinos_ragazas viXra author page]
* [https://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/21868/InTech-The_thermodynamics_in_planck_s_law.pdf "The Thermodynamics in Planck's Law" (InTech, 2011)]
* [https://forums.fqxi.org/d/1406-the-metaphysics-of-physics-by-constantinos-ragazas FQXi essay: "The Metaphysics of Physics"]

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