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Tag Archives: science
1905 – 2005
Next year will be the 100th birthday of E=mc2. I tripped over another article about Einstein this morning (thank you, Arts and Letters Daily, couldn’t live without you!!) – and wanted to pass it on. The article begins: Everybody has … Continue reading
Let’s lighten the Code Orange gloom
“As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.” – … Continue reading
When the Blue Stops
Remember the scene (or the couple of scenes) in The Right Stuff when Yeager is pushing the limits (the scene at the very end of the film comes to mind): Yeager is flying up up up, through the blue, higher … Continue reading
Beauty
Doesn’t this make you feel peaceful just to look at it?
Quantum of Energy
“Time was when I loved books on astronomy — and understood them. I can’t understand the new ones — they seem to require a new language. When a scientist like Jeans tells me that a ‘quantum’ of energy can ‘pass … Continue reading
Naming It
“Everything in mathematics does exist now. It’s a matter of naming it. The thing doesn’t arrive from God in a fixed form: it’s a matter of representing it with symbols.” — Gregory Chudnovsky
Change
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. — Charles Darwin
Observing
Nothing is more important about the quantum principle than this, that it destroys the concept of the world as “sitting out there”, with the observer safely separated from it by a 20-centimeter slab of plate glass. Even to observe so … Continue reading
The Mysterious
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not, who can no longer wonder, can no longer feel amazement … Continue reading
Quantum Mechanics
“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood it.” — Niels Bohr