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April 08, 2012

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7:40 PM | How the Modern Physics was invented in the 17th century, part 3: Why Galileo didn’t discover universal gravitation?
Note: this is the third of three parts of the essay. The first two parts were published yesterday and the day before (see links at the bottom of the page). The very first discovery in fundamental physics, made by Galileo, – the law of free fall – was also the first discovery in physics of [...]
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April 07, 2012

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7:26 PM | How the Modern Physics was invented in the 17th century, part 2: source of fundamental laws
Note: this is the second of three parts of the essay. The first part was published yesterday and the third will be published tomorrow (see links at the bottom of the page). What was the source of the originators’ faith in fundamental laws? Einstein wrote about Kepler, who «lived in an age in which the [...]
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April 06, 2012

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9:00 PM | How the Modern Physics was invented in the 17th century, part 1: The Needham Question
Note: this is the first of three parts of the essay. The other two parts will be published over the next two days (see links at the bottom of the page). H. Floris Cohen in his recent book “How Modern Science Came into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough”, according to a blurb, has [...]
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August 21, 2011

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2:00 PM | The Riddle of the Third Idea: How did the Soviets build a thermonuclear bomb so suspiciously fast?
The famous Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov left a rich heritage. He outlined an explanation for the disparity between matter and antimatter in the universe. His idea of gravitation as the quantum elasticity of the spacetime continues to inspire the search for a unified theory. He was a pure theorist who invented the Soviet H-bomb and, [...]
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