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Brian Clegg
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Sometimes you need to let go
When you really get engaged in a scientific theory, just as when you support a particular political viewpoint, it can be very difficult to let go. This might run counter to the theoretical nature of science, which supposedly delights in overturning old theories - but the reality is that scientists are human beings and don't like to change deeply held views.This need to sometimes push through a
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How To Build A Dragon Or Die Trying: A Satirical Look At Cutting-Edge Science
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| The Hubble was the space telescope that launched a thousand picture books destined for the coffee table, such as Hubble Legacy. Inevitably, its new, more capable brother, the Webb is following suit. Thankfully, though, this is more than just a pictur ...more | |
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| You know you've discovered something special when immediately after reading a book you start looking for other titles by the same author. I came across Lavie Tidhar in a passing reference on TwitterX (though I had unwittingly read a short story by hi ...more | |
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| There have been several Twelve Tomorrows collections from MIT Press since the original in 2018 - stories that are supposed to make the reader think about the impact of future technology. This latest addition focuses on 'science fiction exploring the ...more | |
“Newton’s law of gravitation. That’s all you need (with a spot of calculus to crunch the numbers) to work out how the Earth will orbit the Sun or how an apple will fall if you let it go at a certain height. The only trouble is that Newton had no idea how this gravity thing worked. His model was simply: ‘There is an attraction between bits of stuff, and let’s not bother about why.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“Famously, Einstein said that his ‘happiest thought’ occurred here: ‘I was sitting in a chair in the Patent Office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me. If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled.’ By thinking of someone falling, for example in a plummeting lift, Einstein had realised that it was impossible to distinguish acceleration and the pull of gravity. And working through the mathematical implications of this made it clear that gravity was an effect that could be produced by a distortion of space and time.”
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
― Gravitational Waves: How Einstein's spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe
“The year 1992 should have been remembered as the 700th anniversary of the death of a man who changed the world. Yet the occasion passed without note. Few know of the remarkable achievements of someone who, more than any other, can be said to have invented science.”
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
― Roger Bacon: The First Scientist
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