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...