text: He predicted that heavier-than-air travel was impossible, and thought X-rays were a hoax.
full_question: He predicted that heavier-than-air travel was impossible, and thought X-rays were a hoax. He calculated the age of the Earth to be 100 million years, because he didn't know about radioactivity. While at the University of Glasgow, he did mathematical work related to electricity, and formulated the first and second laws of thermodynamics. This is, for ten points, what Scottish nobleman who also formulated a scale of absolute temperature that now bears his name?
first_sentence: He predicted that heavier-than-air travel was impossible, and thought X-rays were a hoax.