Archivists remain puzzled by the expression he once wrote...
"Zo, can any one provide the last term? LO, what?
Bueller?
Posted on 11/13/2016 7:25:21 AM PST by LouieFisk
Physicists avoid highly mathematical work despite being trained in advanced mathematics, new research suggests.
The study, published in the New Journal of Physics, shows that physicists pay less attention to theories that are crammed with mathematical details.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
I suspect this based on the facts that hard math doesn’t jive with their liberal interpretation of physics. The model that global warming was based on was intentionally doctored data that math would not support!!
One of my favorite all time books.
Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Signh
Free PDF avail on line
A surprisingly easy read and description on the evolution of math.
And the solving of A cubed + B cubed = C cubed (no numbers exist to solve this ratio)
The book leaves you with the sense that math is art
Today’s teachers probably couldn’t pass an 8th grade (primary school) exit exam from1950. Or get through a McGuffy reader from 1930.
Snowflakes, creating more snowflakes. Unlike our past:
http://www.rense.com/general75/pass.htm
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3744163
http://www.barefootsworld.net/1895finalexam.html
Are there any participation trophies available? Shouldn't there be adjustments allowed for the curve?
“Allowed to find ‘my way’ thru the maze of the ‘forced’ learning years and was fortunate to have those few superb teachers along the path that made a difference that is now inculcated into me.”
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I never took any advanced math classes in high school (alg, trig, geom, calc,etc.), it wasn’t until (years later) I became interested in physics that I got into it and then it seemed to come relatively easy. So, needing it for an individual interest is also a good motivator.
“The model that global warming was based on was intentionally doctored data that math would not support!!”
Actually, the mathematical formulas weren’t the problem at IPCC, it was the DATA they were forcing into those formulae.
There were using doctored data by changing some numbers AND by not using data that would have discredited their desired political results.
But to your bigger point, hell they can’t tell me the weather in a week exactly, so how the HELL do they think they are going to tell me about drowning if i live in Florida?
Climate Change, real happens all the time, over a LONG period. Global Warming (associated with human actions) filling the oceans in a few decades, poppycock.
What I recall is that his abilities were relatively weak compared to other physicists. Compared to the rest of the population they would be great.
“Today’s teachers probably couldn’t pass an 8th grade (primary school) exit exam from1950. Or get through a McGuffy reader from 1930.”
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Yup. My parents were way smarter than I’ll ever be.
Don’t even get me started on kids not learning cursive! I still remember those letter-practice cards sitting all along on top of the blackboards.
The phrase, often used by politicians and the innumerate press, “All we have to do is just bend the curve...” while point to a PowerPoint graph?”
Always gets guffaws from me.
;>)
Like it!
Others to try for ‘expanding the conceptual mind’:
“Flatland” by Edwin Abbott (1884)
Michu Kaku’s “Parallel Worlds” and “Hyperspace”
“Shouldn’t there be adjustments allowed for the curve?”
i hated those ‘curves’ since i was ‘setting’ them in high school... lotz of lazy’s back then!
There is the fact that physicists are interested in understanding the world, not doing abstract mathematics. Einstein mastered calculus by the time he was 15, and would probably be considered a math wiz by most, but said that in college he was uninterested in higher mathematics because he could not see its usefulness to a theoretical physicist. (A job description that barely even existed when he graduated.)
Certainly none of Einstein’s early papers, through his wonder year of 1905, including Special Relativity, required deep mathematical skill or insight. General Relativity, a theory perfected in 1914, did require Einstein to teach himself four dimensional non-Euclidean geometry, a truly arcane and difficult field.
Einstein was slow to accept the consequences of the advances in theoretical physics he unleashed, including quantum uncertainty, and the expansion of the universe.
Archivists remain puzzled by the expression he once wrote...
"Zo, can any one provide the last term? LO, what?
Bueller?
Even Einstein had a mathematician to work out and derive his famous formula showing the conversion of energy and mass.
LouieFisk, thanks for posting this. It’s refreshing now and then to read a thread that is apolitical.
That’s what I said!
“Wholeness and the Implicate Order” by David Bohm...
You said it so well, thought i’d repeat it!
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