Tag Archives: J. Robert Oppenheimer

frightened fifties: jittery on the letter H

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Dave

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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an electron: a may, a may and a not

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Dave

…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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breeding cosmic pessimism: may be or not be

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Dave

Parapsychological research. Riding Apollo 14 between earth and moon, astronaut Edgar Mitchell shuffled a pack of oddly marked cards and concentrated on flashing mental images of them to four people on the home planet. Sometimes shattering consequences can flow from … Continue reading →

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the paranormal: distance to psi and back

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Dave

…Furthermore, most of us, even if not bored to death by statistics, are apt to look at parapsychology with the prejudices of nineteenth-century mechanistic science. Experimentation in thought transference or precognition is, we assume, a pastime for Victorian parlors, a … Continue reading →

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