I love how every century or so the entire field of physics collapses on itself because of a few discoveries that go against everything currently known and then we just kinda have to wait a little while until it gets back on its feet
A chemist from the 1910s could pick up a modern chemistry textbook and understand quite a bit of it. They’d have lots of missing gaps but they could probably understand a decent amount. A physicist from the 1910s could pick up a modern physics textbook and not understand jack shit of it
A chemist from the 1910s in modern times: Woah! You guys discovered quite a few more elements of the periodic table! Cool!
A physicist from the 1910s in modern times: what the fuck is a particle accelerator
I mean to be fair a particle accelerator seems somewhat self-explanatory so long as you know what particles are
