You have to keep up with modern physics if you want to understand string theory and multiverses.
There is a good chance that modern physics is in a similar situation.
Taking just one example, the development of much of modern physics (from quantum theory to the creation of the atom bomb) owes its success to teamwork.
Using a combination of modern physics tools--including three-dimensional, high-resolution X-ray, radiocarbon dating with accelerator mass spectrometry, and infrared spectroscopy--the researchers analysed the tooth to determine the age and composition of a resinous filling detected inside.
Einstein's special relativity theory that says energy equals mass times the speed of light squared underlies "pretty much everything in modern physics, " said John Ellis, a theoretical physicist at CERN who was not involved in the experiment.
Yet for all of his popular appeal and surface accessibility, Einstein also came to symbolize the perception that modern physics was something that ordinary laymen could not comprehend, "the province of priest-like experts, " in the words of Harvard professor Dudley Herschbach.
By extension, its discovery would help explain the presence of stars, planets and humans, and thus rank as one of the biggest coups for modern-day physics.
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Scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton considered the quest to create the stuff in a laboratory to be much more important than figuring out gravity and other principles that underpin our modern-day understanding of physics.
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What Rushkoff and Malik are describing is a new experience of physics for humans, more akin to magic or at least quantum mechanics than to the classical Newtonian physics on which the modern world was based.
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Modern innovation springs from a deep understanding of physics, electronics, math, chemistry and biology--not Proust.
Tom Shanks, Professor of Physics at the University of Durham, UK, thinks the experiment is a modern version of Sir Arthur Eddington's historic eclipse expedition.
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