PHYS P20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Lionello Venturi, Pieter Zeeman, Pierre Curie
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The art of science boris castel and sergio sismondo. New perspective = new problems = new research. First 30 years of 20th century saw collapse of classical physics, which suggest closure of a project. Space and time were independent absolutes, now together and shaped by matter and energy. Light was a wave or streams of particles, now both. Also a change in art around this time. Achievements included systematic use and recombination of work of earlier artists, new technology, and mathematical insights. Artists and physicists adopted radical modes of representation. Early 20th century, artists and physicists challenged common sense and started creating new ways of representing the world. Hard to tell exact beginning of a revolution. There are always earlier prefigurations and late resistance. Science revolution could have begun in 1895 to 1897 with experimental developments. J. j. thompson measured charge of particles in cathode rays. These events didn"t change conception of atoms, but provided new opportunities for new discoveries.
