Re: my post of scientists’ logos, a reader says, “I really don’t know the three that are above Borlaug.” They’re three 20th Century quantum physicists.
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Another Post on Quantum Physics
It’s hard to argue against the father of our understanding of the atom, Niels Bohr, but I’ve always been taken by what the more recent physicist Richard Feynman said, “If you think you understand quantum mechanics then you don’t understand …
Quantum Physics is Befuddling
This made me smile. Most of the physics that have been developed in the last 120 years is counterintuitive, to put it mildly. This is a reminder that the human mind did not evolve so as to comprehend the secrets …
Quantum Mechanics Will Shake You Up
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the photoelectric effect in 1924, the principle on which solar PV is based. Yet it was really Max Planck who set the stage for this two full decades …
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Science and Spirituality
The young reader to whom I’ve referred earlier asks: I see you studied physics. Is there not something in science that suggests that we are of spiritual nature? That’s a wonderful question. Unfortunately, it’s not my field per se, but …
Happy Birthday to a Great Chemist (Or Should I Say Physicist?)
It’s the birthday of Ernest Rutherford, best known for presenting us with the first model of the atom that included electrons spinning around a tiny but relatively high-mass nucleus of the opposite charge. He won a Nobel Prize in chemistry …
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The Old Story of Science and Religion
Recently I was reconnected with a friend from college who asked me how I wound up majoring in physics and philosophy, given that they’re two radically different ways of understanding our physical and mental universes. I thought readers might be interested …
Science Under Attack
It’s the birthday of physicist Richard Feynman, a gentleman who left us many important breakthroughs in quantum mechanics and electrodynamics, but is best remembered for his personable character and warmth, and his belief that science is a thing of beauty. …
The World Since Newton, and What It Means To Us, Today and Tomorrow
It’s the birthday of Isaac Newton, perhaps the best-known person in the history of science. Though there was other genius to his credit, Newton’s celebrity derived mainly from his insight into universal gravitation and thus the Laws of Motion that …
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