Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.
Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.