I still keep asking these ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions.
“Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.” ― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time.
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So the question is: what are the truly elementary particles, the basic building blocks from which everything is made?The hostility of other scientists, particularly Eddington, his former teacher and the leading authority on the structure of stars, persuaded Chandrasekhar to abandon this line of work […] However, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1983, it was […] for his early work on the limiting mass of cold stars. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.” “Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. “This is absolutely THE best teacher resource I have ever purchased. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. Teachers and parents!
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. My students love how organized the handouts are and enjoy tracking the themes as a class.”
However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. He believed this because he felt, for mystical reasons, that the earth was the center of the universe, and that circular motion was the most perfect.As far as Kepler was concerned, elliptical orbits were merely an ad hoc hypothesis, and a rather repugnant one at that, because ellipses were clearly less perfect than circles. “Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. My disability makes this rather a slow process, so I had plenty of time.The Catholic Church had made a bad mistake with Galileo when it tried to lay down the law on a question of science, declaring that the sun went round the earth. Chapter 1 Quotes “You’re very clever, young man, very clever,” said the old lady.
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He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God.
Chapter 1 is a short history of physics, its impact on our relationship and location within our universe, and gravity. Occasionally, I find an answer.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" (including LitCharts Teacher Editions.
The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.”
They're like having in-class notes for every discussion!” “…only in the few universes that are like ours would intelligent beings develop and ask the question: “Why is the universe the way we see it?” The answer is then simple: If it had been any different, we would not be here!”