Science & Thought Provoking Entropy | 07 Mar 2010
This is an eloquent and thoughtful essay by Dr.Marcelo Gleiser, Brazilian physicist and astronomer. He is also Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College, is the author of THE DANCING UNIVERSE: FROM CREATION MYTHS TO THE BIG BANG.
Pl care to share your thoughts ..
It’s easy to bash humans. We are making a mess of [...]
Life & Science Entropy | 27 Jan 2010
in⋅er⋅tia
Noun
1.– Inertness, esp. with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
Physics.
2. The property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force.
” Fix’d like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw [...]
Nature & Science Entropy | 11 Jan 2010
Each Other — Where We Are
The recent Time magazine cover feature Why Genes Aren’t Your Destiny lead me to post this feature on epigenetics by Ecologist, author, poet and cancer survivor, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. May seem long to read on net [...]
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” – Dr. Steven Weinberg
We may never know where we came from. We will probably never find that cosmic connection to our lost royalty.. Read this thought provoking essay by Dennis Overbye
The Joy of Physics Isn’t in the Results, but in the Search Itself
I [...]
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-Albert Einstein, “Geometry and Experience”, -1921
” Einstein found right again. Heavens not askew! Savants not agog!’ ”
Read this fascinating feature by Dennis Overbye in NYT.
7.3 Billion Light-Years Later, Einstein’s [...]
Nobel Awarded for Harnessing Light
Our ubiquitous Digital cameras, YouTube, hi-speed Internet, medical endoscopes —just a few of countless modern marvels made possible by the three scientists who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics
Charles Kuen Kao and with Willard Sterling Boyle and George Elwood Smith sharing the other half. Kao’s discoveries have paved the way [...]