I keep reading that as “anyones”, which makes it sound more like the scientists were having an existential crisis.
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sensationalized here:
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Charles Sheffield wrote a story based on this very thing. I wish I could remember the title. It may have been one of his McAndrew stories.
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not sure how this one escaped the event horizon of self-published bullshit
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Authored by a prof of mechanical & aerospace engineering.
At North Carolina State University.
Not to a snob of course (well, maybe).
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It’s got “hoax” flags all over it, from the introductory paragraph about the “five elements” to the bit crediting General Relativity for resolving the wave/particle issue … which GR has nothing to do with
It’s written to look good to magazine editors who don’t know anything
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“I got a paper published this year!”
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Possibly flashing banners, et al.
I wonder what the response would’ve been had she written to H. L. Mencken?
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It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence.
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But Nicholas of Myra probably does exist. He’s supposed to have existed in the early 4th century, and to have punched Arius, although that last bit may be a later legend. He had a local church in the 5th century, and more churches and hagiographies in the 6th. He is supposed to have had a tomb.
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I wish I had the exact text but I forgot where I read it.
You know those drug labels that say “Don’t take if you’re allergic to any of the ingredients?”
I swear I saw one that essentially said “If you have an allergic reaction to this drug, you may have an allergic reaction to this drug.”
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I like Erma’s take on OTC drugs…to her, the ones that said “Do not operate heavy equipment” meant no using the stove.
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a special issue of Phil trans devoted to what we might. learn from a new space probe to the “ice giants” Uranus and Neptune.
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Well, naturally. But it would make sense for The Great Green Arkleseizure’s sneeze to have a similarity to a slime mold.
What do you mean, “that’s not what they meant”?
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probably untrue…?
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In the absence of high-res imagery or other spectra, speculation is for the comic books.
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Lots of flashing, stuff that goes with video games, that sort of thing.
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