Introduction
Our current ideas of motion and rest were developed by Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. These ideas developed by Galileo and Newton are the parts of Classical Physics/Mechanics or Newtonian Physics/Mechanics in which Newton had a very huge contribution including his laws of motion and his universal law of gravitation. Classical Physics is more complete in itself. Modern Physics includes two major theories – Einstein’s theory of Relativity (or Relativistic Mechanics) and theory of quantum physics (including quantum mechanics and quantum field theory).
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About the Author – Madhur Sorout
Sorout is currently a last third year high school student, living in India. His main fascination lies in Physics mainly in the field of general theory of relativity and topics related to it like Big Bang, Black Holes and Evolution of Universe. He likes to make out the meaning of what he see in this universe. He loves to read books by Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson and other authors (and Physicists). He is an atheist and believes that Physics completely rejects the idea of a god. He likes to play cricket also and he wants to continue down the route of research in Theoretical Astrophysics.
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