Mechanics

Thomas Young (13.06.1773-10.05.1829) was an English scientist, one of the founders of wave optics, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1794) and its secretary in 1802-29.

Isaac Newton (4.01.1643-31.03.1727) was an outstanding English scientist who laid the foundations of modern natural science, the creator of classical physics, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1672) and its president (from …

Osborne Reynolds (23.08.1842- 21.02.1912) was an English physicist and engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1877).

Blaise Pascal (19.06.1623-19.08.1662) was a French mathematician, physicist and philosopher.

Alexei Zinovyevich Petrov (28.10.1910-9.05.1972) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1969).

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (23.04.1858 —4.10.1947) — a German theoretical physicist, the founder of quantum theory, a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1894) and its permanent secretary in 1912 — 38.

Siméon Denis Poisson (21.06.1781-25.06.1840) — French mechanician, mathematician and physicist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1812).

John Lighton Synge (born 23.03.1897) — an Irish theoretical physicist and mathematician, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and its president in 1961—64.

Simon Stevin (1548-1620) was a Dutch mathematician, mechanician and physicist.

George Gabriel Stokes (13.08.1819-1.02.1903) was an English physicist and mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1851).

William Thomson (Kelvin) (26.06.1824-17.12.1907) was an English physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1851), its president in 1890-95.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Fock (22.12.1898-27.12.1974) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician (1939; corresponding member 1932).

Efim Samoilovich Fradkin (born 24.02.1924) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1970).

Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18.09.1819-11.02.1868) was a French experimental physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1865).

Stephen William Hawking (born 8.01.1942) is an English theoretical physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1974).

Karl Schwarzschild (9.10.1873 - 11.05.1916) was a German astronomer and physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1912).

Nikolai Nikolayevich Schiller (13.03.1848—23.02.1910) was a Russian physicist.

Albert Einstein (14.03.1879-18.04.1955) was an outstanding theoretical physicist and one of the founders of modern physics.

Deep space — galaxies “run away” faster than the theory provides for.

1. THE REAL ACCELERATION OF TIME From the school physics course we know that, according to the theory of relativity, space can contract and time can slow down (stretch).