dark clouds threatened physics

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An historical example of metaphor used by a scientist

"In a famous lecture before the Royal Society, [William Thomson/Lord Kelvin] warned of two 'dark clouds' threatening to darken the heavens of theoretical physics."

Ernst Schwenk

Schwenk, E. (1994). My name is Becquerel.

[The 'clouds' were relativity and quantum theory.]

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