nAME A PERSON WHOSE THEORIES HELPED EXPLAIN THE WORLD?
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Newton' and Einstein's on relativity
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Isaac Newton. It would give him a big scare, considering he is most remembered for his laws of gravity.\nOh, and Christopher Columbus........."OMG!    It is flat!!!!"
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How about the guy around here who has a new theory on global warming?  I hear he's in line for a Nobel Prize!
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It's that fellow from England; Hawking ( his last name )  I  once checked out audio tapes of his on black holes  etc, etc .......and was totally lost but well entertained !! lol
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what three theories..list them please.
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1)Isaac Newton: The greatest genius that ever lived.  His work opened the natural world to study, and answered almost all of the major questions of his day.\n\n2) Aristotle: The most influential thinker until modern times, who established observation and logic and central principles in understanding the universe.\n\nThen, in no particular order:\n\nPlank, Einstein: physics-Plank established quantum physics (after a lot of resistance) and Einstein relativity.  Between the two, they brought us into the modern understanding of the universe-we have not really made discoveries of this significance since.\n\nMendel, Darwin: biology- The understanding of evolution, which is the origin of all the species (Darwin) and of the process of genetics (Mendel).\n\nWegener: geology: Plate tectonic theory-from him we understand a great deal of how the Earth is structured.\n\nFreud: psychology:  Almost none of his theories are believed today, but the very idea that there was a subconcious, that the mind was amenable to analysis, was absolutely revolutionary.  His work probably has more effect on the way the average person thinks about themselves and the world than any other on this list.\n\nLavoisier, Mendeleev: chemistry: Lavoisier overturned all of the thought of the day on chemistry with the establishment of conservation of mass.  Mendeleev constructed the periodic table of the elements, and explained property relationships-all of chemistry is built on this.
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hello.obviously the answer from any keyboard would be albert einstein.we hav many instances to name as why he is prodigious in math and physical calclations...
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Most people don't simply believe theories.........they just acknowledge them as a possible reason or explanation.\n\nIt's called having an open mind.
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Is it possible the answer is Gene Roddenberry...lol
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Nikola Tesla.\n\nBecause he thought it wouldn't cause lights to flicker for anyone.
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The name for the theory that everything was created 'as is' is the Omphalos theory. I'm not sure about the other, but it sounds like a variant of the 'tired light' theory.
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Albert Einstein. \n\nHe was very smart, intuitive, and a humanitarian. All of the things we need today.
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Albert Einstein. \n\nTime travel is kind of like standing at the north pole you can travel but only south. Time is a perception of the mind (as is all of the universe!), as Albert said "Time is an illusion, although persistent still just an illusion!". We can only travel forward in time, we CAN distort time however as we do so our perception (which is a factor of time) is also distorted so that we cannot detect the distortion. The best reading is Einsteins theories.
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It is reputed to have been Lord Kelvin.  The Michelson-Morley experiment (to find the true reference frame of the universe - the failure of which led to Einstein's discovery of special relativity) and the solution to the blackbody radiation equation (which led to the "ultraviolet catastrophe" and Planck's discovery of quantum mechanics) was all that was left, other than extending the constants to additional decimal places.\n\nHowever, Feynman claims this is more myth than fact.
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Read "The Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain. It has the answer.
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Euclid.\nGreek geometer who wrote the Elements , the world's most definitive text on geometry. The book synthesized earlier knowledge about geometry, and was used for centuries in western Europe as a geometry textbook. The text began with definitions, postulates ("Euclid's postulates "), and common opinions, then proceeded to obtain results by rigorous geometric proof. Euclid also proved what is generally known as Euclid's second theorem:  the number of primes  is infinite.  The beautiful proof Euclid gave of this theorem is still a gem and is generally acknowledged to be one of the "classic" proofs of all times in terms of its conciseness and clarity. In the Elements , Euclid used the method of exhaustion and reductio ad absurdum. He also discussed the so-called Euclidean algorithm  for finding the greatest common divisor  of two numbers, and is credited with the well-known proof of the Pythagorean theorem. \nNeither the year nor place of his birth have been established, nor the circumstances of his death, although he is known to have lived and worked in Alexandria for much of his life. In addition, no bust which can be verified to be his likeness is known (Tietze 1965, p. 8).
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Usually the ancienct world but I have heard people refer to others without denoting their intended world.  The context of the conversation or lecture will usually explain which world as well.