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Give me but one firm spot on which to stand and I
will move the earth
-ARCHIMEDES
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Greek
Inventor, 287 - 212BC |
Archimedes is popularly held to be the father of invention.
The advance in science and technology owes a huge debt
to the Ancient Greeks, who more than 2000 years ago toiled
beneath the Mediterranean sun while solving life's problems,
cracking old puzzles, and sorting out new ones. The Greeks
in their imaginative way set the course for everlasting
discoveries. The Romans in their practical way put much
of what the Greeks had discovered to good use. They laid
roads, waterways and drains. They designed new life around
them, while on the move, to aid their advancement in the
world to become one of history's greatest empires. They
superseded the Greeks who were left behind pondering the
meaning of life - question that has occupied minds ever
since.
UNIVERSE
 We
live in a changing universe, and few things change as fast
as the theories of how it all began. How did we get here?
Not so long ago, at least back to our not-too-distant ancestors,
thought and reason was solely earth-centred. What went on
beyond was the concern of only the intelligent few. By the
middle of the twentieth century we all knew we were adrift
in a huge expanding void, so vast that light from its farthest
points takes twice the age of earth to reach the range of
the most powerful telescopes. So how much further does it
go? People began to ask. Where is the boundary? Will we discover
yet another universe out there, in perhaps 500 million years
time? Our conceptions of how the universe works have also
changed as well. We used to believe that the rules of physics
only existed here on earth. But Isaac Newton put an end to
these thoughts and posed a whole range of new ones. He taught
us that what goes up must come down. He explained that much
of our science here applies equally to the heavens above.
The first scientific revolution was born.
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