physics
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Chapter Two Galileo’s Relativity Aristotle Alfred North Whitehead, the brilliant and somewhat mercurial 20th century philosopher and mathematician once said, “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” In many ways the same can be said of Aristotle regarding science. Though he used…
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Chapter Four Einstein’s Beginner’s Mind Shunrio Suzuki, the great Zen master who first introduced Zen to the West is quoted as saying, “Achieving enlightenment is not difficult. What is difficult is maintaining a beginner’s mind.” Most Westerners, when they hear this for the first time have no idea what he means. It sounds ridiculous. Our…
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Chapter Three Maxwell and theLuminferous Aether In 1847 a sixteen year old boy name James Clerk Maxwell was taken to see what was considered one of the “scientific wonders” of the age. It was a special crystal from Iceland that had been cut into a prism. The prism acted as any other prism would, letting…
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Chapter One Newton’s Dilemma Gravity Let us travel back in time to that semi-apocryphal story of Sir Isaac Newton under the apple tree. The apple falls and bops him on the head. Eureka! Newton suddenly grasps that what makes the apple fall is the same force that makes the moon orbit the earth. The modern…
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Introduction Three Quarters of Reality Since 1905 with the publication of Albert Einstein’s “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” aka Special Relativity, the world has known that unlike our sensory experience of living in three dimensions, we in fact live in a four dimensional universe which Einstein labeled “Space-Time.” Even the general public is pretty…
4D - The Mass of Nows 