Archimedes' hidden writings revealed with particle accelerator (Stanford)

ap on San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 8/4/06 | Terence Chea - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Rick E. Martin / Mercury News

Senior Conservator Abigail Quandt prepares to load a goatskin
parchment bearing the work of Archimedes to be scanned.

[eddie willers]

Eureka!

[SteveMcKing]

I find it frightening that more knowledge exists than can be studied in a lifetime. Great secrets are stored away in archives worldwide, but it's impossible to sort through everything.

[the invisib1e hand]

further proof that Christians don't get science? /sarc (for the people in Loma Linda).

[the invisib1e hand]

wikipedia: orwell's history book.

[AbeKrieger]

Cool, does this mean we can now fire up the cold fusion device?

[cjmae]

I think Christians have obstructed their own paths over the years.
I remember seeing some educational show about Easter Island and they stated that early missionaries burned an alter that probably would have explained how the statues were built and what they represented.
Many seem to have no faith in their faith. Maybe it was just a bunch of Alice Cooper song lyrics.

[Chode]

drink your ovaltean...???

[Blood of Tyrants]

I don't think that Archimedes was THAT advanced for his time.

[zeugma]

GGG Ping Candidate.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, adding, but no ping:

X-rays reveal Archimedes secrets
BBC News | 2 August 2006 | Jonathan Fildes
Posted on 08/02/2006 4:45:46 PM EDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676614/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[monkeyshine]

best known for discovering the principle of buoyancy while taking a bath.

Inventor of the rubber duckie?

[Rastus]

That's more along the lines of Rambaldi, I think.

[monkeyshine]

[nonliberal]

I don't think it was bouyancy he discovered. It was mass and volume.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Other than gaining insights into mathematics, physics, and astronomy not equaled within 500 more years I'm sure you're right (wink).

[dr_lew]

Suppose you're in a boat, in a pool, with a load of scrap iron in the boat. If you dump the scrap iron into the pool, will the water level of the pool rise, fall, or stay the same?

Archimedes would know the answer, based on the principle of buoyancy.

[RebelTex]

"Other than gaining insights into mathematics, physics, and astronomy not equaled within 500 more years I'm sure you're right (wink)."

Actually, he didn't really have any insights.  He merely wrote down all those equations and theories that were integral to the plots of all those forgotten plays and epics by Homer, and which have been resurrected in the TV series 'Numb3rs'.

;^D