Abstract
Toward the end of the 18th century, many scientists believed that all the fundamental laws of physics had already been discovered. Falling apples obeyed Newton’s laws of motion, spinning compasses were explained by Maxwell’s unification of electricity and magnetism, and steam engines drove the first industrial revolution through the rise of thermodynamics. Lord Kelvin stated, “[t]here is nothing new to be discovered in physics now, all that remains is more and more precise measurement.” Only “two small clouds,” he warned, were the two remaining mysteries: black-body radiation and the theory of light. These small clouds, however, turned out to be gathering storms, revealing entire undiscovered fields of physics (Passion, 2021).
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Bui, Kien
(2025)
"A Journey Into the Mysterious Quantum Realm,"
Osmosis Magazine: Vol. 2025:
Iss.
2, Article 19.
Available at:
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/osmosis/vol2025/iss2/19