…see this was all related to the fundamental way in which, from the earliest times, the study of physics approached nature. From Democritus on, the physicist wanted to know what are the fundamental bits out of which everything is made. And so they thought,…

…mechanics. And newtonian mechanics has a very long history because it goes back to some of the atomic theories of people like Democritus, who were among the great pre socratic philosophers of ancient Greece. And so we may as well begin with a little bit…