Follow-Up to Gravity
“I have no reason to believe that the human intellect is able to weave a system of physics out of its own resources without experimental labour. Whenever the attempt has been made it has resulted in an unnatural and self-contradictory mass of rubbish.”James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
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I admit that my “nerd quotient”1 may be higher than the average found in the general population and so this post may go beyond concepts you have thought about or wish to think about. (I have at least saved you from reading the formulas that I considered writing into this blog.) Yet, even those who…
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Two prayers caught my attention today. One is a contemporary prayer from Scot McKnight who prays: Grant us, O Lord,To trust in you with all our hearts.For as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy.Through Jesus Christ our Lord,…
Continue readingSilence and Reflection
Silence, reflection, hearing the Word of God, and understanding; Augustine instructs us in all of these in Sermon 52, 22. “Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free…
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Some interesting remarks from Michael Gungor. “If two different teams try to play two different games on the same field against each other, it’s probably not going to go very well.Good scientists have a very clear road that lays out what they are trying to do. They are generally using observation and experimentation to understand…
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