Knowledge through Science

Time-we are well aware of this physical entity which according to many waits for none. Several theories were developed on the concept of 'time'. It was during the mid-sixteenth century that Sir Isaac Newton published his masterpiece, The Principia Mathematica,  in which he introduced the concept of 'absolute time' .  Figure 1: Unparalleled geniuses, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Though this Newtonian concept was famous and widely accepted in the beginning, it faced a lot of opposition during the early twentieth century from a patent clerk who was working on a new concept of space and time. This patent clerk would publish his famous papers on relativity, in a scientific masterpiece,  'Relativity- Special and the General Theory'. The patent clerk was none other than, Albert Einstein who believed in the concept of  'relativistic time'.  Poor Einstein had to face a lot of criticism when he published his findings solely because, it questioned the findings

In today's blog we will talk more about history than science. History remains my most favorite subject after science. After reading this blog you will appreciate the extend to which our scientific knowledge has reached and at the same time worry about the problems that arise, with use of science, adversely, for satisfying certain groups of people and authorities. The world history can be broadly classified into two phases (according to me), namely period before the World War and period after the World War. This phase distribution is very obvious because after two bloodshed World Wars, the world has never been peaceful again, even for the slightest of problems nations go for war. In history nothing has been achieved though wars, all that we gain from wars are pain, hunger, anger and worries. Figure 1: An equation so famous, 'a simple line' that paid a huge price. In this blog we will dig deep into World War II when the world saw the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.