today - Math and Science
Every now and then, you just need quotes....
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Professor Robert Silensky
"If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." -- Isaac Newton (seriously, one of my FAVORITES!!!)
"When I get a little money, I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest people of past centuries." -- Descartes
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." -- ARCHIMEDES!
"The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated." -- Ben Franklin.
"Small minds discuss persons. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas. Really great minds discuss mathematics."
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." -- Leibniz
"Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic." -- Pierre Boatrou
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..." --Isaac Asimov
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. --John Moffat
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. --Richard Davisson
If it's green or wriggles, it's biology.
If it stinks, it's chemistry.
If it doesn't work, it's physics.
~Handy Guide to Science
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. -- Einstein
And just because...
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that.... The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E) temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed.... [However] Revelations 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving...shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. --From Applied Optics, vol. 11, A14, 1972
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Professor Robert Silensky
"If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." -- Isaac Newton (seriously, one of my FAVORITES!!!)
"When I get a little money, I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest people of past centuries." -- Descartes
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." -- ARCHIMEDES!
"The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated." -- Ben Franklin.
"Small minds discuss persons. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas. Really great minds discuss mathematics."
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting." -- Leibniz
"Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic." -- Pierre Boatrou
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..." --Isaac Asimov
Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. --John Moffat
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. --Richard Davisson
If it's green or wriggles, it's biology.
If it stinks, it's chemistry.
If it doesn't work, it's physics.
~Handy Guide to Science
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. -- Einstein
And just because...
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that.... The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E) temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed.... [However] Revelations 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving...shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. --From Applied Optics, vol. 11, A14, 1972