100 Greatest Discoveries — Season 1, Episode 3: Physics
Documentary • 45 min • 1 season, 8 episodes • ★ 6.5/10
Episode synopsis
Thirteen discoveries that help explain why matter and energy behave as they do: Galileo's law of falling bodies, Isaac Newton's conclusions of universal gravity, Newton's laws of motion, the second law of thermodynamics, experiments in electromagnetism, Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and his equation E=mc2, Quantum theory, calculations on the nature of light, James Chadwick's discovery of the neutron, the development of superconductivity, Murray Gell-Mann's proposal of quarks, and the discovery of the strong and weak nuclear forces.
About 100 Greatest Discoveries
Bill Nye walks viewers through various areas of science to show how far they've come through their beginnings until modern times.