SciShow: Why Scientists Keep Trying to Break This 18th Century Law

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Content of the Lesson: It’s usually not a great idea to break laws, but breaking the laws of science is an exception! In fact, it’s often how we make progress. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Forces/isq.html http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/seri/PAAS./0003//0000102.000.html https://books.google.com/books?id=lGMyBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA462&lpg=PA462&dq=2.0000001612+Newcomb&source=bl&ots=3-b8Ox4rEK&sig=ACfU3U2PfhBTnT3EpBXX2DbKYSa_znkXSw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitjJLL-aPnAhWFWM0KHUqDDWYQ6AEwAHoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=2.0000001612%20Newcomb&f=false https://www.sciencenews.org/article/einsteins-genius-changed-sciences-perception-gravity https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.01520.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0307284.pdf https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.50.1066 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.26.721 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/quantum-field-theory/qft-history.html https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/9212283.pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0026-1394/41/5/S04 http://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/ParticleAndNuclear/photon_mass.html http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160429-the-real-reasons-nothing-can-ever-go-faster-than-light https://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.1003.pdf Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feeling_magnetic_repulsion.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coulomb.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13425 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercuryorbitsolarsystem.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simon_Newcomb_01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_(Nobel).png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gravitation_space_source.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_prominence_on_the_sun_erupted.jpg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/space-time-theories-of-relativity-i-njwwe https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/abstract-background-of-shining-particles-digital-sparkling-blue-particles-beautiful-gm1166376707-321284828 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/grid-square-graph-line-full-page-on-white-paper-background-paper-grid-square-graph-gm1185342390-334019560 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/hispanic-male-wearing-lab-coat-gesturing-two-fists-in-air-gm182454515-11938984 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/equations-on-blackboard-gm1167968032-322305890 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/beautiful-light-photons-running-fast-blue-color-on-black-gm1200538585-343921568 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/slow-down-warning-sign-gm185118776-19438675


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