This is a little different from the usual subjects of this blog, but may be of interest to many of you. I have been reading a book about the birth of quantum mechanics. Although I taught it for decades, I…
Month: April 2019
Easter and the Calendar
The modern-day scientist is motivated by any number of human emotions. Chief among those is curiosity, an unquenchable desire to know how the world works. In the words of Einstein, “I want to know God’s thoughts.” These words from one…
A Wonderful Podcast
I have been a member of the Planetary Society for years, an organization co-founded by Louis Friedman, Bruce Murray, and Carl Sagan. It is through this organization that I learned I could send my name (on a CD along with…
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