Friday 29 April 2011

Quote of the Week - Albert Abraham Michelson on the future of physics

Hindsight is a wonderful thing-
have a look at this quote by the physicist and Nobel laureate Albert Abraham Michelson (born 19th Dec, 1852)-

“The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.”

- he made this comment in 1903, two years before Albert Einstein published his theory of Special Relativity....