ABSTRACT
In the beginning of the twentieth century, there occurred a surge in both the experimental data acquired and the theories proposed to explain the sometimes “unexpected” data. With the formulation of the Special Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein in 1905, the “quantum hypothesis” by Planck in 1900, and the development of quantum theory in the 1920s and 1930s, modern physics was created. This veritable explosion of data and theory led to an entirely new and different perception of the laws of nature and the way physical systems behave.
