John Blair Wells is an entrepreneur and businessman who is fascinated by physics.

1. Physics: The Classical Discipline
By John Blair Wells

2. Classical Physics
Physics today is an entirely different animal than it was many years
ago, as it has evolved along with the collective human
consciousness. Like all things however, though classical physics is
obsolete today, it was vital to the development of the modern
physics that we are so familiar with today. Physics first became an
independent science when early Europeans began using methodical
experimental and quantitative methods in order to explore theories
and make discoveries for concrete laws of physics that could not be
dismissed as mere opinion.

3. Many major developments in the classical period of physics allowed for
progress to pick up momentum, growing exponentially to allow for many
leaps and bounds in the way that we understand the universe. Some of
these developments included the replacement of the geocentric model, an
idea that the Earth was the center of the universe, and that everything had
been tailor made for us specifically. It was a common and widely accepted
belief for a long time that our world was the only one that existed. It wasn’t
until men like Copernicus established their theories of a sun-centered
system that any progress was made on this front.

4. One of the major inhibitors of the classical world of physics was the church,
who often stood in direct opposition to many of the theories of that time.
The reason for all this resistance was that there was no separation of church
and state in the time, and the influences of the church were prolific back
then, reaching into every aspect of life, including philosophy and science.
These new theories were contradictory to the church, which threatened
their rule and compromised all of their doctrine, which is why it was so
heavily opposed.

5. John Blair Wells is an entrepreneur and businessman
who is fascinated by physics.