In concluding the course this semester we identified a sequence of events that marked very significant changes in our perception of the universe.$$Match the physics with the epoch.

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Discovery and new science in large collections of data

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Exploration of space

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Discovery that gravity and laws applying on Earth also applied throught the solar system

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Hypothesis that the matter of our world is made of atoms

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Awareness of the "universe" beyond our immediate environs

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Newton published the Principia describing his theories of force, motion, and the mathematics $($calculus$)$ enabling quantitative predictions

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Recognition by Einstein and Planck that light was a particle, a quantum of energy, which we now call a photon, and in the same year Einstein explored the constancy of the speed of light with his theory of Special Relativity.

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Einstein proposed General Relativity and with it a change in our perception of space, time, and gravity

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