Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.
Sheri ReynoldsTags: death fiction physics cemetary rural-life
I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...
Philip PullmanHow wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Niels Bohr...in microphysics the observer interferes with the experiment in a way that can't be measured and that therefore can't be eliminated. No natural laws can be formulated, saying "such-and-such will happen in every case." All the microphysicist can say is "such-and-such is, according to statistical probability, likely to happen." This naturally represents a tremendous problem for our classical physical thinking. It requires a consideration, in a scientific experiment, of the mental outlook of the participant-observer: It could this be said that scientists can no longer hope to describe any aspects or qualities of outer objects in a completely independent, "objective" manner.
M.L. von FranzTags: physics subjective limitations jung jungian man-and-his-symbols micro-physics objective subject
...rather than ask why something happened (i.e. what caused it), Jung asked: What did it happen for? This same tendency appears in physics: Many modern physicists are now looking more for "connections" in nature than for causal laws (determinism).
M.L. von FranzIn the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry PratchettTags: humor science physics metaphysics
The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.
Terry PratchettThe death of God left the angels in a strange position.
Donald BarthelmeTags: religion uncertainty physics modernity
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
Richard P. FeynmanTags: physics
One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.
Lee SmolinTags: science christian cosmology physics theology metaphysics
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