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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an
hour. Sit with a read more
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an
hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a
minute. That's relativity.
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful read more
I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between
mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past
centuries, has recently ended in divorce.
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.
I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.
I don't believe in mathematics.
I don't believe in mathematics.
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one
sentence: Time and space and graviton have no read more
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one
sentence: Time and space and graviton have no separate existence
from matter.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot read more
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour.
That's relativity.
Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and read more
Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visua
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential read more
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through read more
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.