Timelines tagged “physics”
5 timelines
- Black Holes
The theory and observation of black holes from 1784 to 2022: John Michell's Newtonian "dark stars", Karl Schwarzschild's solution, Cygnus X-1, Hawking radiation, gravitational waves from merging black holes and the Event Horizon Telescope images.
- Particle Physics
Subatomic particles, accelerators and the Standard Model, from J. J. Thomson's identification of the electron in 1897 to the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012.
- Quantum Mechanics
The development of quantum mechanics, from Max Planck's energy quanta of 1900 through the theory's founding in the 1920s and the debates over entanglement to the Bell tests honored by the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Theory of Relativity
The special and general theories of relativity, from the Michelson–Morley experiment of 1887 through Albert Einstein's theories of 1905 and 1915 to experimental tests up to 2026, including the gravitational-wave detections of 2015 and 2017.
- Thermodynamics
The science of heat and temperature, from Galileo's air thermoscope of the 1590s through Carnot, the laws of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics to record cold near absolute zero in 2021.