Einstein’s Cosmos: The Hidden System Behind Scientific Revolutions
At the center of this discussion is Einstein’s Cosmos by Michio Kaku and a question that extends far beyond physics: what happens when reality no longer fits the model used to explain it?
This episode explores how late nineteenth-century physics became trapped between two successful but incompatible systems—Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory. Rather than abandoning the existing framework, scientists constructed increasingly elaborate explanations such as the aether to preserve it.
What begins as a story about relativity becomes an examination of paradigm maintenance…
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