What Are Physicists Working On?

"What are physicists fussing over?" "It's like a science story that travels through time and space, from Thales's whimsical thoughts when he fell into the mud puddle in ancient Greece, to Newton's epiphany when he watched an apple fall to the ground, to Einstein's confusion in front of the blackboard. There are no boring formulas here, just a group of people who are not doing their jobs properly: Copernicus hid in the church attic and wrote "rebellious" manuscripts, Galileo used a telescope to look at the moon and was judged by the church, Bohr and Einstein argued for a lifetime about "whether God rolls the dice"... Some of them lost their noses dueling with others for data, some were so poor that they died on the way to ask for back wages, and some pretended to be "just a hypothesis" when they clearly discovered the truth. But it was these people with paranoia, stubbornness and even a small temper who gradually pulled mankind out of the dream of "God is in charge of everything". They used telescopes, equations and explosions in the laboratory to spell out the truth of the universe: It turns out that the stars are not God's lanterns, the falling of apples and the rotation of the moon are the same force, and even time can be bent... This is not only the history of physics, but also the story of human beings using curiosity to fight ignorance and using reason to overcome authority. Open it and you will find that behind the theorems written in the textbook, there is a more touching persistence than the formulas - after all, physicists who have been struggling for thousands of years are just trying to figure out: What is going on in the universe we live in?