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Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (August 31, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

CHAPTER

The Status Quo of Physics

In the 1860s and 1870s, there's a big discussion about whether fluids like water were made of atoms. People had guessed that gases might be made of atoms bouncing around back in the 1600s. Back then, you know, some people fought very hard for the atomic point of view. It eventually became clear that that really was how things worked.

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