The major impact of these things was, of course, on the Africans who were taken from their homes and taken to the New World as slaves. These people experienced terrible physical conditions aboard the ships on the Middle Passage. They experienced terror and heartbreak. Many of them died in the passage and those who did not experienced the trauma of being enslaved in an unfamiliar land among people who were not their own. This was a terrible impact and it is the most important impact, in human terms, of the Middle Passage and the Triangular Trade.
He determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers.
