Einstein and the light quanta
In two previous posts (I and II) we learned how the attempt to explain the radiation emitted by hot bodies led the German physicist Max Planck in the late 1900s to propose a novel idea: […]
Newton’s programme
Lord Kelvin’s second little cloud II
In this post we will continue the story we started in the previous one: the story of a certain dark cloud shadowing the clear skies of Classical Physics. As we narrated there, it all started […]
Lord Kelvin’s second little cloud
In a previous post we talked about Newton’s Programme, i.e. using mathematics and the scientific method to explain the world around us. There we saw that by the end of the 19th century this programme […]