Tag Archives: Albert Einstein

time stretchers: the sum remains the same

Is Time simply a necessary concept and not really a  creation? If so,  Time and absence of Time would be in a conflictual relation, meaning you could have one or the other and not a combination thereof. Instead, there is … Continue reading

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spinoza: two against nature

Alfred Rosenberg on the couch. The Spinoza Problem by Irvin Yalom opens up the old debate as to how  can one reconcile reason and revelation given that both are imbued with some unsatisfactory elements. Maimonides made a valiant stab to … Continue reading

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1939: atomic age stirrings

In 1939 the United States was on the threshold of a new era, but to the experts the future looked like a fourteen ton typewriter…In the United States at the time of the New York World’s Fair, with its theme … Continue reading

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copernicus: going rogue on relative motion

A little errant goes a long orbit. Displacing man from the center of the universe. What began as some computational sleights of hand to help the Church with calendar problems soon assumed a life of its own. The earth was … Continue reading

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Copernicus: beware of unnamed shooting stars…

The Copernican Revolution took a trajectory that would have made Copernicus do an orbit in his grave…wayward comets and and an earth displaced from the center of the universe, wandering in orbit through space trying to establish an identity… …The … Continue reading

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garcon, there’s a yid in my coffee

The argument, to many, is not Land for Peace, but Land is Peace. Although the nature of warfare has changed, strategic depth is still critical. That is, the final determinant is what happens on the ground. Hence, maintaining possession of … Continue reading

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frightened fifties: jittery on the letter H

Waxing eloquent on the 1950’s. Why must we be nostalgic about the fifties? Does it make sense that Americans tend to think of that decade as a reassuring, serene and happy time, as, in short, a sort of Golden Age? … Continue reading

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Darwin: cchh..chch…changes

…Of course, Darwin’s theory was not immediately accepted by all scientists, either; in England its opponents were lead by Sir Richard Owen, superintendent of the natural history department of the British Museum, while in America the chief protagonists for and … Continue reading

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messy antics

A cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind? … Or is it something a little more profound than Puritan theory, whereby the messy desk theory is actually in an in-between grey-zone, where a prim and proper desk  may … Continue reading

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an electron: a may, a may and a not

…An electron can pass from the orbit of one nucelus to another’s without passing through space between. It occupies no particular position in space when its velocity is under observation; when its location is fixed, its speed is indeterminate. At … Continue reading

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