I like that! When, at age perhaps 5, I asked my grandfather how it was possible that reindeer could fly, he told me, “They’re buoyant.” I didn’t buy it, but I appreciated his effort. This is how far our stories …
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It’s true that the physicists of the later 19th Century believed that they had discovered all the major, basic principles that govern the universe. Then, of course, came Einstein, followed by the quantum physicists and all the theoretical stuff that …
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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.
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 …
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 …
Please check out the “DK” curve at left. From Bertrand Russell: The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Here’s an interesting article from my colleague Gary Tulie of Buckinghamshire, England. Readers may wonder why I always throw in Gary’s location whenever I mention his name; it’s because it gives me an excuse to go find a beautiful picture …
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I’ll be the first to admit that the cartoon isn’t for everyone, but it does have a couple of virtues: 1) It has nothing to do with the imploding U.S. presidency, and I figured readers could use a break from …
It’s the birthday of Isaac Newton, whose book “Principia” overturned nearly everything humankind had believed about the universe up to that point (1686). I bring this up to note that perhaps we should not be so smug about “the laws …
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