Top 10 Greatest Scientific Discoveries of All Time

the history of evolution has taught us that life will not be contained welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 greatest scientific discoveries of all time my name is Michael Kane I've just had a vaccine for covid it didn't hurt not many people know that for this list we'll be looking at the most impactful scientific breakthroughs of all time we won't be including new tech which could easily fill its own list which scientific discovery do you think is the most significant let us know in the comments number 10. heliocentrism we all know today that the Earth revolves around the Sun however ancient times saw this model heliocentrism compete with geocentrism which imagined Earth at the center of the solar system the first known heliocentrism model was proposed in the 3rd Century BCE but the geocentric model dominated and heliocentrism was only presented as a mathematical model in the 16th century CE by now famed astronomer Nicholas Copernicus you're kidding this is the greatest scientific discovery since Copernicus this led to the copernican revolution a universal acceptance of heliocentrism in science and astronomy it wasn't without protests however from copernicus's contemporaries and the Catholic church I'm telling you people the Earth revolves around the Sun burn him there have been alterations to the model over time yet it remains to this day number nine the Human Genome Project our understanding of DNA has come a long way from its initial isolation in 1869 subsequent developments over the The Next Century eventually led to the initiation of the Human Genome Project in 1990. the project aimed to map all human DNA and present the first official sequence of the human genome by 2003 92 percent of the genome had been fully sequenced the rest was finally completed by early 2022.

this has contributed to significant advances in human biology and medical science allowing scientists to identify genes and genetic variations associated with specific diseases or traits with tools like crispr it's now possible to edit such genes for therapeutic or research purposes you know what why don't you take a little Human Genome Project and hit the road number eight the God particle some discoveries take a lot of time and effort which was the case for this one the Higgs boson particle was first theorized in 1964 by Peter Higgs and his colleagues here that piece of space in front of me now and indeed inside me and in every piece of space out to the edge of the universe is crammed full of these Higgs particles it's been referred to as the God particle as it's considered responsible for providing Mass to all matter it's what gives all matter Mass the thing without which we could not exist you're talking about the moment of creation however it was only discovered in 2012 thanks to cern's Large Hadron Collider a 17-Mile ring of superconducting magnets that boost the energy of particles and we saw them fall to bits we reconstructed them and that there's a handful there are several hundred of them have been seen now so that makes it significant enough to claim a discovery isolation of the Higgs boson confirmed previous theories about the nature of matter and opens many doors for further research into its structure if it weren't for this and I love that I asked you to explain it dumb it down to me and you said it's molasses uh essentially number seven the theory of relativity time is relative okay it can stretch and it can squeeze but it can't run backwards when he was 16 Albert Einstein imagined chasing a beam of light that eventually led to his theory of relativity which consists of two parts special relativity states that the laws of physics are the same for all observers moving at a constant speed relative to each other and that the speed of light is a constant that can't be exceeded one result is the famous equation E equals m c squared where e stands for energy M for mass and C for the speed of light general relativity adds gravity explaining that it's a result of how matter and energy curves space rather than a force the theory transformed science spurring massive advances in physics and cosmology number six quantum mechanics Einstein's general theory of relativity is excellent for studying objects at large scales however when it comes to the smallest scales scientists rely on quantum mechanics the term was coined in the 1920s by physicists working to fill in the blanks in classical physics it involves some incredibly counter-intuitive Concepts such as the uncertainty principle and quantum entanglement which involves spooky action at a distance however for now it's the best theory we have to explain the behavior of atoms and subatomic particles the study of quantum mechanics has led to the development of key Technologies such as lasers MRI machines transistors and more what is the correct interpretation of quantum mechanics since every interpretation gets exactly the same answer to every measurement they're all equally correct however I know you believe in the many worlds interpretation so I'll say that now do you think I'm smart enough number five the Big Bang interestingly the term Big Bang was coined by an astronomer who considered the theory to be mistaken oh excuse me again dear on a BBC Radio program in 1949 physicist Fred Hoyle proclaimed his disagreement with the quote hypothesis that all matter in the universe was created in one big bang the theory has since become widely accepted around 13. 787 billion years ago an infinitely dense Singularity exploded creating space and time and everything in it everything the light touches is our kingdom wow the theory originated with the realization that the universe is expanding and received Landmark evidence with the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation in 1965.