The modern study of physics began during the Scientific Revolution of the 16th century, building on centuries of study from ancient cultures. Before Newton, Galileo, and Copernicus got their minds dirty with equations, early physicists came from the Middle East, developing the concepts of momentum, mass, weight, and force. The study of matter, space, time, and just about everything Star Trek ignores has revolutionized humankind’s view of the world and universe, as physicists say. Researchers are still searching for what the Theory of Relativity can do for the average person aside from make school harder.