Sublime

Norton suddenly recalled the myth of Oceanus, the sea that, the ancients believed, surrounded the Earth. Here, perhaps, was an even stranger sea—not circular, but cylindrical.

we can derive equations for the system as a whole by adding up what happens to each little volume element.

If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little

Avec les années, ses études scientifiques se font plus sérieuses. Il remplit des pages d’abrégés et de passages qu’il compte intégrer dans divers traités sur le vol, l’eau, l’anatomie, l’art, les chevaux, la mécanique ou la géologie. Presque tout y est, informations personnelles et révélations intimes exceptées.

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Heisenberg showed that the uncertainty in the position of the particle times the uncertainty in its velocity times the mass of the particle can never be smaller than a certain quantity, which is known as Planck’s constant. Moreover, this limit does not depend on the way in which one tries to measure the position or velocity of the particle, or on

He is using a conceptual reasoning that has a precise historical origin, Anaximander’s apeiron.