Today's physics questions evoke 1904's lessons.

Dallas Morning News | August 30, 2004 | Copyright

Byline: Tom Siegfried

When physicists list what they don't know, they usually leave something out.

It's not on purpose. It's just that sometimes they think they know something that really isn't so.

It was that way a century ago, when the world's greatest scientists convened at St. Louis in September during the Congress of Arts and Sciences. Luminaries from all fields of learning described the current state of human knowledge and prospects for the future.

Several speakers in the physics and mathematics sections identified profound ...

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