Architecture & Design &Science Entropy | 12 Apr 2010
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin-(1809 –1882) The new Darwin Centre, recently opened to visitors, it is an extension of the famous Natural History [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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”, – ” Einstein found right again. Heavens not askew! Savants not agog!’ ” Read this fascinating feature by Dennis Overbye in NYT. 7.3 [...]