A couple of science quotes
April 23rd 2011 07:59
from A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (pg 79)
A machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the solar system - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate. Thus it is impossible to test grand unified theory directly in the laboratory.
from E=mc˛ - a biography of the world's most famous equation - David Bodanis - chapter 7
What guided Einstein was that, in his mid-twenties, he found the unknown intriguing. He felt compelled to comprehend what might have been intended for our universe by The Old One (as he referred to his notion of God).
'We are in the position,' Einstein explained later, 'of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.'
When the chance came to reach through the gloom, and pluck out The Old One's book that had the shimmering equation E=mc˛ written on its pages, Einstein had been willing to take it.
A machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the solar system - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate. Thus it is impossible to test grand unified theory directly in the laboratory.
from E=mc˛ - a biography of the world's most famous equation - David Bodanis - chapter 7
What guided Einstein was that, in his mid-twenties, he found the unknown intriguing. He felt compelled to comprehend what might have been intended for our universe by The Old One (as he referred to his notion of God).
'We are in the position,' Einstein explained later, 'of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.'
When the chance came to reach through the gloom, and pluck out The Old One's book that had the shimmering equation E=mc˛ written on its pages, Einstein had been willing to take it.
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