Atom - Illusion of Reality
Summary
In 1912, Victor Hess made one of the most astonishing discoveries in science – what would come to be known as cosmic rays. At the same time, scientists were studying radioactivity – rays coming out of atoms.
Almost a hundred years later, scientists have come to realize that the world we think we know, the solid, reassuring world of our senses, turns out to be just a tiny sliver of an infinitely weirder, more wonderful universe. Our reality is just an illusion.
In 1905, Albert Einstein conclusively proved the existence and size of an atom. Scientist Rutherford, a few years later, performed an experiment that revealed the shape of the interior of an atom. It is almost entirely empty space. How then could this empty atom make the solid world around us?
Danish theoretical physicists postulated that the world of the atom ran on principles that were completely different from everything we’d known before.
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6_7_EY8_78
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4pkc3MoxE4
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjK3Z_xIuMQ
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JTAyErIFB4
Keywords: Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel, Alan Turing, String Theory, bran Theory, Loop theory, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, theoretical physics, quantum theory
