Finding one’s place in physics
MAY 01, 2008
DOI: 10.1063/1.4796849
After Isaac Newton announced the law of universal gravitation, John Milton expressed the idea, which Steven Weinberg describes in his Opinion piece, as “so easy it seemed / Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought / Impossible!”
Unlike physicists of the late 1800s, who thought that all that was left was measuring the constants to another significant figure, we still have much “impossible” to be done.
More about the Authors
Elroy O. LaCasce. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, US .
© 2008 American Institute of Physics
