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Two significant unanswered questions about the electromagnetic theory remained. The first problem was that the ether hadn’t been detected, while the second involved an obscure problem about energy radiation, called the blackbody problem (described in Chapter 7). What’s amazing, in retrospect, is that physicists didn’t see these problems (or dark clouds, as British scientist Lord Kelvin called them in a 1900 speech) as especially significant, but instead believed they were minor issues that would soon be resolved. As you see in Chapters 6 and 7, resolving these two problems would introduce the great revolutions of modern physics: relativity and quantum physics.