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Kinetic Theory

In Our Time: Science

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The History of Kinetic Theory

Kinematic theory predicted existence of absolute zero, which took a while to be accepted. It has an important practical application in the kind of research I'm doing on superconductors. So, of course, we shouldn't forget about Brownian motion. And as we said right at the start, why do we believe in atoms? Well, people started that process with Einstein and making kinetic theory visible in that way. He did it directly.

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