What is the most important idea in the story and who came up with it?
Newton described the space-time-motion relationship 350 years ago with the same equations that allow us to launch rockets today.
Since the apple fell on him?
This is nonsense. Everyone already knew about gravity, but Newton changed the way we see the world in two phases: he was able to see that the force that makes the apple fall is the same force that makes the planets orbit around the sun and that moves the ' entire universe...
From our feet to infinity?
And he made another immense cognitive leap by describing it not only with words, but with precise equations with the predictive ability that allows any student today to anticipate the movement of a ball or the planet Jupiter.
Only with Newton would we have GPS?
It wouldn't work at such a distance: it took Einstein and relativity to discover that time curves space. In 1900 physicists realized that Newton's equations did not explain everything they were already observing.
What were we still missing?
What are we still missing, because Max Planck anticipated quantum radiation and we are still butting heads since Einstein realized that the universe was fundamentally quantum mechanical…
More complex and hippy than Newton's?
Relativity and quantum are counterintuitive: they require reasoning that contradicts what we used to understand reality until then.
Because?
Because humans have been around for 200,000 years and we've only had GPS for 20 years and even today we don't need to understand quantum or relativity in our day to day life...
Can we all go beyond Newton?
I think that trying is indispensable.
Because? for what
Because you will experience the universe to the extent that you try to understand it. And that's why you have to get to quantum relativity and particle physics... Cheers!
Didn't quantum dislodge Einstein?
I don't completely agree...
"God - he disagreed - does not play dice"?
But he didn't distrust quantum theory because he was a deadbeat, he just judged it incomplete. And he was right.
Are we still fighting with her?
But don't forget that Einstein never gave up on explaining reality, because the universe is explainable; it makes sense and we can understand it. This is the eternal discovery.
It's easier if you're a physicist like you.
No one said it was easy, but Einstein was not alone: he had Schrödinger by his side...
And your cat able to be and not be at the same time in one point!
And his equation, because he too did not believe that quantum was complete and, moreover, he had to endure some giants of Physics questioning it. And think of the other revolution: that of relativity.
And if understanding reality exceeds the capacity that evolution has given us?
You need to expand your brain: do some stretching. Marvel with me that Einstein did not know that black holes or the big bang existed or that the universe is expanding. It is proven today, but, in disbelief, he predicted it 100 years ago with just a pen and paper.
Were his equations smarter than him?
This is fascinating! Understanding relativity or approaching quantum will change your brain: big ideas manage to change it.
It is difficult to conceive that the time measured by a clock differs whether it is above or below.
Without measuring it, Einstein already realized that to understand the universe it was essential to conceive time and space together...
How difficult to assimilate it!
It is the opposite of what we perceive: until Einstein time is for everyone universal and absolute in the universe, but he shows that it is actually personal and relative and depends on the movement of each body: it depends on how you move...
Who leaves ages less than who stays?
And when I say "right now" I'm lying, because my right now is only mine and only here. You have a different one right now.
Because nothing is faster than light?
And one consequence is that we won't be able to get where the science fiction authors predicted... But it's not the worst.
What is the best?
That if there was a human capable of conceiving that the universe had a beginning 13.8 billion years ago and that it has been expanding since then, we all can.
How long will the weather last?
he is young Think about black holes...
If you fall into one you disappear?
Everything disappears in it and right now there are many brilliant physicists, let's console ourselves, banging their heads on the table to understand it.
