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I know, and the Lord Kelvin quote is too suspicious to be credible, a man like him would never have said such a thing. If we can trust Wikipedia he never did:
by HarryHirsch 10y ago
I know, and the Lord Kelvin quote is too suspicious to be credible, a man like him would never have said such a thing.
If we can trust Wikipedia he never did: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Thomson#Misattributed https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Thomson#Misattributed
- IgorPartola 10y agoDidn't Isaac Newton die thinking that he solved all of physics though?
- 0xfaded 10y agoNewton was the first to experiment with light reflectance of glass of various thicknesses. He found the relationship but had no idea how a light corpuscule could know the thickness of the glass when it decided to reflect or not. Newton published his corpuscular theory of light but I certainly don't think he would have claimed to know what was going on.