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You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10^12 to 1. — Ernest Rutherford
Tag: Science
Jaffa, life therein.
[Sorry about the lack of posts. On Monday, the DSL in this area died. It came back the next day, but our wireless router was still dead. All fixed now!] So you know you’re really in Jaffa when you stand in an overheated little kitchen off of a pigeon-shit-bespattered courtyard, slopping dishwater on the tiles … Continue reading Jaffa, life therein.
Kepler, looked at again
How am I supposed to think about my heroes? Hero: Johannes Kepler. Developer of the three laws of planetary motion. And even more important, discoverer of the real scientific method. Been interested in him ever since I did a paper in History of Math class about the development of methods of solutions for Kepler’s Equation: … Continue reading Kepler, looked at again
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. — Richard Feynman
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