Sublime: you don’t hear it much except as an adjective meaning really, really good, used the way “divine” or “glorious” “wonderful” are used, just another adjective, nothing to do with divinity or glory or wonder. But really, sublime describes something that takes you beyond the ordinary — Glenn Gould plays Bach sublimely — something […]
Physics
I’ve often had the same thought myself. You have too, haven’t you. http://abstrusegoose.com/208
Abstruse Goose says: The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. Then he adds: The title text is true. He’s toying with us, isn’t he. Credit: http://abstrusegoose.com/244
Probably not God’s fault, but very few people understand that business of hidden dimensions in string theory. http://abstrusegoose.com/235
BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
I’m aging. I love too many people whose health and wellbeing is too uncertain. I want to write about too many things, each one requiring too much time and too many brains. I take on too many assignments and some of the most important are outside my talents and over my head. I can’t keep […]
A charming website called Who’s the Scientist? shows seventh graders’ images of scientists before and after actually meeting scientists.
Pay attention to the quote below the drawing. John Archibald Wheeler was a physicist whose specialities were nuclear physics, gravitation — he created the term, “black hole” — and getting people riled up. He died in 2008 at age 96. I mean, when Victor Hugo writes that science says the last word on nothing, […]