Bazza Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER or maybe RPMiller and I could keep this going in your absence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I don't get paid enough to do Cancer's job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER well I don't know physics or astronomy. Maybe I could teach them mystical theology instead. that is the same isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, some people have trouble distinguishing them, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER however, is physics, just descriptions of energy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER so this isn't a good book to learn introductory physics then? The Physicist's World: The Story of Motion and the Limits to Knowledge By (author) Thomas Grissom How do students learn about physics without picking up a 1,000-page textbook chock-full of complicated equations? The Physicist's World is the answer. Here, Thomas Grissom explains clearly and succinctly what physics really is: the science of understanding how everything in the universe moves. From the earliest efforts by Presocratic philosophers contemplating motion to the principal developments of physics through the end of the twentieth century, Grissom tells the unfolding story of our attempt to quantify the material world and to conceptualize the nature of physical laws. Through the centuries, questions about why things move proved to be unanswerable in any absolute, satisfying way. Instead the question became how things move, a direction of thought that led to the rise of modern science. Physics emerged as a mathematical description of the motion of matter and energy, a description believed to be complete and exact, limited only by the precision of measurement. Grissom shows that in one of the great intellectual ironies, advancements in twentieth-century physics affirmed instead that this quantitative theory was capable of discovering its own limits. There is only so much that physics can reveal about the world. This is physics for the thinking person, especially students who enjoy learning concepts, histories, and interpretations without becoming mired in complex mathematical detail. A concise survey of the field of physics, Grissom's book offers students and professionals alike a unique perspective on what physicists do, how physics is done, and how physicists view the world. About the Author Thomas Grissom is an emeritus member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College. A writer and a physicist, he has published several collections of poetry and short stories, a novel, and more than forty-five technical papers and reports. Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press Oh, not energy, how everything moves. it is all movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Except when it doesn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Move? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER One of them things, yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Which one? The ones that move or the ones that appear stationery? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER so this isn't a good book to learn introductory physics then? Oh, not energy, how everything moves. it is all movement. So this is Physics? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYjSivlYHg4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER ... This is physics for the thinking person.... So the lover of history and philosophy -- and math illiterate -- is now called the "thinking person". I haven't met the author, but Evergreen State is about 2.5 hours drive from here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So this is Physics? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYjSivlYHg4 Yes...let's get physic-cal [/Oliva Newtron-John] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So the lover of history and philosophy -- and math illiterate -- is now called the "thinking person". I haven't met the author, but Evergreen State is about 2.5 hours drive from here. Road trip? ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Evergreen State has a reputation for "nontraditional". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Homeopathy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER We will have to wait for an answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER They are at the sort of the Sixties' sort of fringe for their education theories. For a long time, at least, they didn't give letter grades, and if it's nontraditional, that's how they do things. I haven't been there (though I know a couple of people who have taught there), but conventional academic rigor is not something for which they have a reputation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER OK, got tix to two Sounders games next month. Pricier than I like, but oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER They are at the sort of the Sixties' sort of fringe for their education theories. For a long time' date=' at least, they didn't give letter grades, and if it's nontraditional, that's how they do things. I haven't been there (though I know a couple of people who have taught there), but conventional academic rigor is not something for which they have a reputation.[/quote'] so basically the author hasn't got the most rigorous education reputation behind him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 6, 2012 Report Share Posted August 6, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER OK' date=' got tix to two Sounders games next month. Pricier than I like, but oh well.[/quote'] "Well, at least you get to be out in the open air." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I just can't get excited about Curiosity landing on Mars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPMiller Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I was just glad it wasn't a $2.5 billion disaster. Those are our tax dollars up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Maybe they could have been diverted to something better...um like a universal medical system, or pay off the national debt... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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