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I can easily see how Newton's Laws of Motion have affected out world greatly, but I'm still a little hazy on Maxwell. As far as my limited understand goes, he was the first to propose that light was a form of electromagnetic radiation. How has this affected history? Is it because of his...

Hello all, I was wondering what advance in physics had the most impact in history and why. Personally, it's tempting to say E=MC^2, which said it was possible to give us the bomb, but it seems that that is too recent to really calculate the effects. Perhaps Newton's laws of motion? Or...