BY THE END OF THE 1800s,MANY SCIENTISTS BELIEVED THAT THEIR EXISTING THEORIES CAN EXPLAIN EVERY THING IN THE WORLD.AROUND1900,SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED THAT OUR GALAXY IS JUST ONE OF MILLIONS OF SIMILAR GALAXIES THAT MAKE UP THE UNIVERSE.THESE AND MANY OTHER EVENTS CAUSED"CLASSICAL|" PHYSICS TO GIVE AWAY TO "MODERN" PHYSICS,CAUSING NEW THEORIES TO ARISE.THE BEST KNOWN THEORIES OF MODERN PHYSICS ARE THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY WHICH WAS DEVELOPED BY ALBERT EINSTEIN,THE GREATEST MIND OF THE CENTURY,AND THE QUANTUM PHYSICS.THOSE TWO THEORIES HAVE INFLUENCED THE WHOLE SCIENTIFIC WORLD.WITHOUT THOSE THEORIES WE COULD NOT HAVE BECOME SO ADVANCE IN SCIENCE TODAY.EXAMPLE OF MODERN SCIENCE -
COSMOLOGY - EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF RELATIVITY AND THE INCREASING KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNIVERSE,STARTED TO GIVE POSSIBLE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION OF HOW TIME AND SPACE ACTUALLY BEGAN.
GENETICS - IN THE 1850s AND 1860s,AN AUSTRIAN MONK,GREGOR MENDEL,WORKED OUT THE BASIC LAWS OF GENETICS-THE STUDY OF INHERITED CHARACTERISTICS.IN 1953,SCIENTISTS FINALLY WORKED OUT THE STRUCTURE OF THE DNA(DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID)MOLECULE,A CHEMICAL THAT GOVERNS GENETICS,AND THAT IS FOUND IN EVERY CELL OF EVERY LIVING THING.
COMPUTER SCIENCE - ADVANCES IN MANY FIELDS OF STUDY,SUCH AS ELECTRONICS AND MATHEMATICS,CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ELECTRONIC COMPUTER.TODAY,NOT ONLY IS COMPUTER SCIENCE IS AN ESTABLISHED AREA OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY IN IT'S OWN RIGHT,BUT COMPUTERS ARE ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR ALL THE SCIENTISTS.
SUBATOMIC PHYSICS - IN 1897,THE ELECTRON BECAME THE FIRST KNOWN PARTICLE SMALLER THAN THE ATOM.HUNDREDS OF OTHER SUBATOMIC PARTICLES WERE DISCOVERED DURING THE COLLISIONS IN HUGE PARTICLE ACCELERATORS,SUCH DISCOVERIES ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO UNDERSTANDING WHAT MATTER IS,BECAUSE ATOMIC PARTICLES ARE IT'S BUILDING BLOCKS.
MODERN MEDICINE - THE DEVELOPMENT OF X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHY IS JUST ONE OF THE TECHNIQUES THAT HAS ADVANCED MODERN MEDICINE.BODY SCANNING TECHNIQUES,SUCH AS CAT(COMPUTER-AIDED TOMOGRAPHY),ALONG WITH KNOWLEDGE FROM OTHER SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES,HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE BODY AND HAVE PAVED THE WAY FOR NEW TYPES OF SURGERY.
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