#497 – Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE – Don Lincoln

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Unifying the laws of nature

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Don traces the history of unification from Newton merging celestial and terrestrial gravity, to Maxwell merging electricity and magnetism — and argues mastering electromagnetism gave us all modern technology. ^{[1] — Don Lincoln "Physics advances by collapsing apparently unrelated phenomena into a single unified framework. Newton showed celestial and terrestrial grav…" 09:31 Play}

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The History of Physics Is a History of Unification

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Physics advances by collapsing apparently unrelated phenomena into a single unified framework. Newton showed celestial and terrestrial gravity were the same; Maxwell merged electricity and magnetism; Einstein fused space and time. Each unification was unthinkable before it happened.

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That very fundamental digging into the laws of nature has spinoffs and it has spinoffs. One of the big spinoffs is our entire technological society. Without being able to govern electricity, we'd still be farmers and shoemakers in cities.

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What scientists can do is figure out how the world works. Society has to figure out how we wish to apply that or not apply that.

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