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The Impact of Michael Faraday and Isaac Newton on Modern Science
Discover how Michael Faraday's discoveries and Isaac Newton's brilliance shaped the way we harness the power of electrons today. Explore the influence of these scientific geniuses in Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey episode 10 part 2.
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Sooner or later, someone would have likely figured out some of his discoveries.
But if Michael Faraday had never lived, we might still be living as our ancestors did
in the 17th century, unaware of the armies of invisible servants awaiting our commands.
This is the story of how we learned to make electrons do our bidding.
And in a way, it begins with the greatest genius who ever lived, Isaac Newton.
This is Woolsthorpe, Newton's ancestral home.
He walked these fields tormented by mystery.
Newton, the man who figured out the formula for the motions of the planets around the
sun, wanted to know, how does the sun make the planets act that way without touching
them?
How do all the apples know how to fall?
Another genius was possible.
puzzled by another aspect of the same mystery.
I sawn yabbe g'schenk f'di.
You see, son, no matter how I turn the compass,
the needle always points the same way, except...
But how?
They do not touch.
I didn't hear a thank you, Albert.
I can still remember this.
The experience made a deep and lasting impression on me.
Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
The man who solved the mystery that stumped Newton also laid the foundation for Einstein's
revolutionary insights and for the way we live now.
