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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.
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.
The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of read more
The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.
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
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
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.
God does not play dice [with the universe].
[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]
God does not play dice [with the universe].
[Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
