Longitude: The True Story
of a Lone Genius
Who Solved the Greatest
Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
Longitude The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel is also excellent.
Longitude: The True Story
of a Lone Genius
Who Solved the Greatest
Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
Both of your references sound extraordinarily interesting.
It is always amazing to me the attitudes that seem to prevail. One of my heros is Wegener who, sadly, died cold and alone on an expedition to Greenland.
Despite the antagonism to his theory early on, these days they don't even want to credit him, replacing his description of "continental drift" with the name "plate tectonics".
I understand how somebody who has spent years learning something is hesitant to challenge it, but it seems to me that the people who are supposed to have the most open minds, the most imaginative views, are in fact the most narrow minded and bigoted about new ideas.
There is little doubt that when a conclusive, definitive, and comprehensive Cosmological/quantum theory emerges, that phd's will be jumping out of highrises like bankers in the great depression.
And there is also little doubt that the theory will not come from the standard ranks, but from an outsider.
