11
Jun
The Selfish Atom?
This from Bill Bryson’s “Short History of Nearly Everything“, my current read - a quote an anonymous author:
A Physicist is the atoms’ way of thinking about atoms.
How very elegant!
Archive for June 11th, 2005
11
Jun
Elegant Prose
From Bill Bryson’s “Short History of Nearly Everything“, a para summarizing Einstein’s three papers - that made the scientific world sit up and say, ” why didn’t i think of that”
Sphere: Related ContentThe first won its author a Nobel Prize and explained the nature of light (and also helped to make television possible, among other things). The second provided proof that atoms do indeed exist—a fact that had, surprisingly, been in some dispute. The third merely changed the world.
