Josiah Willard Gibbs

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Worlds between theory and experiment

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Scicomm Science ATLAS detector experimental physics Heinrich Hertz Higgs boson Isaac Newton Jean Perrin Johannes Kepler Josiah Willard Gibbs Large Hadron Collider leptons Ludwig Boltzmann neutrinos New Physics particle collider particle physics quantum field theory Standard Model of particle physics weakly interacting massive particles

Once Isaac Newton showed that a single gravitational law plus his rules of dynamics could reproduce the orbits of planets that Johannes Kepler had predicted, explain tides on Earth, and predict that a…