Origins of Physics Physics was invented before chemistry. In fact Isaac Newton, the guy who wrote the very first book on physics is why we call non-quantum physics Newtonian physics. Isaac Newton was a proponent of alchemy. Today alchemy is usually thought of as a kind of magic to turn dirt into gold or […]
Human Motivations
Best Teacher Ever One of the most impressive professors I had in college was somebody that I completely didn’t expect to be impressive. He was a very old guy, he taught philosophy 101. When I started college, I took a bunch of classes in my major and took a bunch of classes that were general […]
Broken Brain
College Foolishness When I was in college I had a lot of part-time jobs. Because my university was on the semester system and because I lived in the dorms and because there were several weeks in between semesters I always had quit the job at the end of the semester. I had a lot […]
You Can Do What Einstein Couldn’t
Sometimes reality can be incredibly confusing, and the models we construct to describe it don’t work on so well. If our models, or our maps of the world fail us, we tend to blame reality, rather than re-configuring our maps. One of my favorite stories of physics is “black body radiation,” which gave rise to […]