Where To Stream The Day the Universe Changed Season 1 Episode 9
Making Waves The New Physics Newton Revised
- Aired May 14, 1985
- 60 Min
In 1800, scientists thought they had little left to learn. The universe and the laws it obeyed lay before them like an open book, and then an Italian called Volta invented an electric battery and began a series of events across Europe and the United States that slowly undermined the whole elaborate scientific structure. By 1900, the structure was in ruins. The geniuses who put the universe back together created a new science divorced from common sense. Their science has given us the digital...