History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Peter Galison

Figure 4.4 Hunting the Ether. With a remarkable series of experiments, Albert Michelson sought to measure the earth’s motion through the elusive ether. In the 1881 device shown here, he ...
( Category: Relativity March 11,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-04-07 | Author:Brian Skyrms [Skyrms, Brian]

There are various alternatives. It could be that one of these acts is also “right” for state 3. For example, act 1 might be right for state 3. Signaling system ...
( Category: Epistemology March 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-01-31 | Author:John Ashton & Michael Westacott [Ashton, John & Westacott, Michael]

All-Powerful, All-Knowing, Eternal We have already seen that God’s sovereignty means that He has the right and desire to do all His will, but we have not yet revealed how ...
( Category: Science & Religion March 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 1998-03-30 | Author:Polkinghorne, John [Polkinghorne, John]

CHAPTER FOUR The Continuing Dialogue Between Science and Religion RELIGIOUS thought and scientific thought have been interacting seriously with each other ever since the rise of modern physics provided the ...
( Category: Science & Religion March 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

Looking at Bacon’s plight through modern eyes, it can be difficult to understand why his work was so disliked. We have seen that the man himself, like many other obsessives, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2006-01-11 | Author:Cercignani, Carlo [Cercignani, Carlo]

8.3 Specific heats again Let us return now to the problem of specific heats, which should be a problem concerning equilibrium states and hence easily solvable. The difficulties typically arise ...
( Category: Scientists March 7,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-02-29 | Author:Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay Wesley Richards

THE FAILURE OF THE COPERNICAN PRINCIPLE The preceding list of Copernican Principle predictions, by no means exhaustive, has two implications: When we can test the Copernican Principle against the evidence, ...
( Category: Science & Religion March 6,2016 )
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 2008-05-29 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

On Friday, July 31, Reynolds was aboard the Vincennes, at anchor beside the Peacock off Vanua Levu, talking with William May. May was at work on a chart of the ...
( Category: Americas March 6,2016 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Nisbett, Richard [Nisbett, Richard]

Easterners are almost surely closer to the truth than Westerners in their belief that the world is a highly complicated place and Westerners are undoubtedly often far too simple-minded in ...
( Category: Cultural March 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Malcolm Gay [Gay, Malcolm]

7. FEELING THE LIGHT “Ninety-nine percent of the field is trying to control upper limbs. These guys are obsessed because that’s the only thing they know how to do,” Miguel ...
( Category: Neurology February 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Richard Conniff

“An Animal of an Extraordinary Character” His moment came, oddly, after he had already sailed for home early in 1847, at the end of his years in Africa. The ship ...
( Category: Conservation February 14,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-12-31 | Author:Jay Gallentine [Gallentine, Jay]

14 Devil from Redondo A horrendous undertaking. —Loyal Goff of NASA’s Viking Program Office, on the Viking Biology Instrument Unfettered and indiscriminate in attitude and behavior, the Looney Tunes Tasmanian ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight February 13,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Frank Close

’t Hooft looked at the case when all particles were massless. Many among the cognoscenti believed the massless Yang-Mills theory to be renormalizable, but ’t Hooft felt that no one ...
( Category: Quantum Theory February 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eric Scerri & Lee McIntyre

8.5 Affordances ‘Affordance’ is the word coined by J. J. Gibson (1979) to present his theory of perception. This was a radical departure from the sense data theories of such ...
( Category: History & Philosophy February 1,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Dvorak

The role of gases in volcanic eruptions was self-evident to anyone who has seen an eruption. Lava froths furiously and fountains during eruptions, causing huge plumes of gas to rise ...
( Category: Volcanology February 1,2016 )