A mathematician is an individual who constructs space with 0D particles and then places a bowling ball on this invisible canvas to explain how gravity works.
Bill GaedeTags: physics mathematics gaede
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
Bill GaedeTags: physics relativity mathematics gaede
We are the last generation of humans on Earth!
Bill GaedeTags: physics extinction gaede
A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic...
Bill GaedeTags: physics mathematics gaede
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.
Bill GaedeTags: god physics extinction exist gaede
What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter?
Wes "Scoop" NiskerTags: existence evolution physics
Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.
Bill BrysonTags: physics
It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted, whether it was a chair or a table or a Welsh dresser.
Marcus ChownTags: physics hilarious atoms quantum-theory
At one point in the story, following a brazen daytime bank robbery, Electro is shown escaping from the authorities by climbing up the side of a building, as easily as Spider-Man . . . we see one observer exclaim, "Look!! That strangely-garbed man is racing up the side of the building!" A second man on the street picks up the narrative: "He's holding on to the iron beams in the building by means of electric rays—using them like a magnet!! Incredible!"
There are three feelings inspired by this scene. The first is wonder as to why people rarely use the phrase "strangely-garbed" anymore. The second is nostalgia for the bygone era when pedestrians would routinely narrate events occurring in front of them, providing exposition for any casual bystander. And the third is pleasure at the realization that Electro's climbing this building is actually a physically plausible use of his powers.
Tags: comics physics electro electromagnetism
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.
Murray Gell-MannTags: science beauty theory physics aesthetics
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