VIDEO SUMMARY

Making Waves
With James Burke

Swiss Efficiency
Time Keeping
1801- Geneva
Volta- Voltaic pile
Science <~~> Technology
Brunatelli - Electric plating
Electricity ~~~> Chemistry
Mature Philosophy
1820 Oersted
Faraday- Generators?! (1831)

United States:
1844 - telegraph
Sam F.B. Morse
Motors 1 generation

Cambridge, England
Newton's Universe
Young- Wave Theory
Interference bonds
Young's "Ether"
1861- Maxwell.
Science ~~~> Technology
Production invention shop.
(Early Bell Labs)
minor invention @ 10 days / major @ 6 months
Telegraph, sewing machine, phonograph, light bulb
1879- street lights

England
Prof. Hughes
(Music Prof., American.)
(Early Radio)
(static generator, wireless)
Marconi- 4000 mile
Propagation

Boat demo of Wave Medium
Michelson/ Morely (1887)
Fitzgerald contraction
Universe Change theme ~~~> Ernst Mach- Ferris wheel (1895)
All reality is subjective,
You could not be c? unless you were in contact with it.
Science should describe not explain- Mach
Cathode Rays
1897 Thompson
Cathode Rays are electrons.
On the Concord
Einstein's universe
Light come in
Movies- still silent film

Photons- elevator door closer

1923- DeBroglie
Particle/ wave duality.

1927 Davison / Germer
How an accident- carefully investigated- led to new knowledge
Particles are waves & waves are particles

Heisneberg (1927)
Where / how fast
Position / speed
But not both
Uncertainty principle
"No true basic reality to find"

CERN, Geneva