Neil deGrasse Tyson: My Man, Sir Isaac Newton
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Who's the greatest physicist in history?DeGrasse Tyson: Isaac Newton. I mean, just look... You read his writings. Hair stands up... I don't have hair there but if I did, it would stand up on the back of my neck. You read his writings, the man was connected to the universe in ways that I never seen another human being connected. It's kind of spooky actually. He discovers the laws of optics, figured out that white light is composed of colors. That's kind of freaky right there. You take your colors of the rainbow, put them back together, you have white light again. That freaked out the artist of the day. How does that work? Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet gives you white. The laws of optics. He discovers th...
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Who's the greatest physicist in history?DeGrasse Tyson: Isaac Newton. I mean, just look... You read his writings. Hair stands up... I don't have hair there but if I did, it would stand up on the back of my neck. You read his writings, the man was connected to the universe in ways that I never seen another human being connected. It's kind of spooky actually. He discovers the laws of optics, figured out that white light is composed of colors. That's kind of freaky right there. You take your colors of the rainbow, put them back together, you have white light again. That freaked out the artist of the day. How does that work? Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet gives you white. The laws of optics. He discovers th...
