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nism (which is the process that causes particles to acquire
mass).
Hopefully this will get you through a cocktail party.
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the universe
How has our understanding of the
universe changed in the last 100
years?
Alia Caldwell, submerged in spring rain
in 1912
• Physics is unified. Physicists reasonably assume that we
are approaching a wrapping-up of physical knowledge
about the Universe, with just a few 't's to cross and 'i's to
dot for future generations to worry about.
• The laws of Thermodynamics are understood, fleshed out
by Planck, Maxwell, Boltzmann, Gibbs, et al.
• electromagnetic theory is also established by Maxwell,
Gauss, Faraday, etc.
• Light is properly described by wave theory.
• Rutherford has established the notion of radioactive halflife
and has created a useful model of an atom with a nucleus
(though he has yet to split that atom).
• einstein has presented his paper on Special Relativity
(1905), which threw a cat among the pigeons by predicting
matter-energy equivalence and unifying space and
time, an audacious development on sacred newton.
• In 1912 also, Vesto Slipher measures the first Doppler redshift
to undermine the conventional view, but to science,
the Universe is still in an eternal static state. (Later on, in