As coronavirus spreads around the globe, most
of us are experiencing lockdown and practising
social distancing.
Whenever such outbreak happens, lockdown,
social distancing and hygiene measures greatly
helps to slowdown further spread of disease.
In this video will see, how a man with right
mind set changed the world during one of the
worst outbreaks faced by mankind.
It is really inspiring to know that this theories
can be achieved, even in periods of such worst outbreak.
When the Great Plague of London or bubonic
Plague ravaged through the British city beginning
in 1665, Sir Isaac Newton, in his early twenties
was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge.
During this outbreak Cambridge sent their
students to home to continue their studies.
Isaac Newton retreated to his family farm
of Woolsthorpe Manor, some 60 miles northwest
of Cambridge.
Along with being located a safe distance from
the carriers of the horrific disease that
was wiping out the population of the city,
Woolsthorpe provided the sort of quiet, serene
environment that allowed a mind like Newton's
to reach farthest of the imagination.
These were periods of intellectual endeavor
at Woolsthorpe.
Newton had the time and space to develop his
theories on calculus, optics and the laws
of motion and gravity.
Let’s see how Sir Isaac Newton changed the
World While in Quarantine during The Plague.
Helped develop calculus
He worked on mathematical problems that had
been contemplating at Cambridge.
The issue at hand was determining universal
equations involving fluctuating quantities,
an issue that had been tackled, on a limited
scale, by the French mathematicians René
Descartes and Pierre de Fermat.
By the end of 1666, Newton had effectively solved this problem with a series of papers on the rules of "fluxions," now known as calculus.
Analyzed color, light and the spectrum
The next time you look up at a rainbow in
the sky, you can thank Newton for helping
us first understand and identify its seven
colors.
Before Newton, scientists primarily adhered
to ancient theories on color, who believed
that all colors on the spectrum was a mix
of dark and white light.
Newton disagreed and conducted an experiment
in which he drilled a tiny hole in the shutter
of his bedroom window, intercepted the ensuing
light beam with a prism, and then placed a
second prism in the path of those refracted
beams.
The resulting panorama allowed Newton to calculate
the angle of each refracted color.
More importantly, it revealed the stream of
colors as unchanged – proof that colors
were not modifications of white light, but
that white light is comprised of all components
of the spectrum.
Studied gravity, which aided in the creation
of laws of motion
This was the period that birthed the popular
legend of the falling apple while sitting
beneath a tree and the thump on the head,
which led to the deduction of gravity.
We don’t know if its true but it helps to
explain the science behind gravity.
The force that pulls the apple down must be
the same one that pulls the moon to the Earth.
Furthermore, the moon must also apply that
same attracting force toward the Earth, but
on a lesser scale.
This led to the law of universal gravitation,
which holds that those forces are proportional
to the product of their masses and inversely
proportional to the square of the distance
between them.
Years later he published his theories and
share how this could be expressed in a mathematical
formula, as relevant now as it was then.
Meanwhile, the deadly plague abated by spring
1667, paving the way for Newton to return
to Cambridge and demonstrate that the unexpected
changes to his lifestyle during those dark
days of England would, in turn, change the
rest of the world forever.
This period is now known as annus mirabilis
– the "year of wonders."
As the world fights COVID-19, lets contribute
by staying home and following region wise
safety instructions.
Stay home, stay safe, stay motivated.
