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Hooray! I'm Back!
They Almost Got It Right Along about 5 years ago, I wrote an article (Okay, So They Got It Wrong) about how the 'elder' generation of physicists (they were philosophers then) had come up with some pretty strange ideas about how things work. Well, not too long back a reader wrote to let me know that he saw it a different way. Rather than how "they got it wrong," he thought I ought to consider how they almost got it right! Which is true, they did. So, here we are again, rethinking an old idea. Maybe someday, folks will be getting a good chuckle out of what our physicists are coming up with right now. Come to think of it, some of us area chuckling already... Alternative Physics So, then I got to thinking. Well, if they almost got it right. And we probably haven't really got it right yet. How about some of those really far out ideas that we tend to look at with a bit of a smirk on our face(s)? Specifically, how about that Noah's Ark for instance? I never thought there was a chance that he got all those critters and his family into that boat -- there are thousands of species after all -- but then I started watching Dr. Who a few years back and WOW! have you ever seen the inside of his British telephone booth cum spaceship? That thing's huge! And then there's Dune and that "folding space" business. So maybe we'll take a few trips through sci-fi, cover a little Biblical history, and throw in some fairytale stuff, too. All with a mind to good science, you understand. It's just that, well, these days I've started to wonder if there really is a difference after all. I mean, what's with that space-time continuum? And sometimes it's a wave and sometimes is a particle? Good grief! Go To Page: 1 2
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