You had a good lunch (bean soup and crackers) at Bob Evans with a few retired teachers from Mason. Home. You have a new shower head to install for Carol and some work on your retirement account. Doug recommended a book you would enjoy. A fiction with a physics base.
An Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity
By Harald Fritzsch
Translated by Karin Heusch, University of Chicago Press,1994
Synopsis:
Fritzsch offers readers the opportunity to listen in on a meeting of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and a present-day physicist. While he introduces the theory of relativity, Fritzsch teaches its sources, its workings, and the ways it has revolutionized our view of the physical world. An Equation That Changed the World dramatizes the importance of relativity, for the human race, and the survival of our planet.
"Fritzsch could not give the modern reader a more memorable introduction to the personalities and science of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein unless somehow he could find the keys to H. G. Wells' time machine. . . . Many readers will applaud Fritzsch for this lively but profoundly insightful book." —Booklist, starred review
"[Fritzsch] has dreamed up a dialogue between the two great physicists, helped along by a fictional modern physicist. . . . The conversation builds up to an explanation of E=mc2, and on the way illuminates the important points where Newtonian and Einsteinian theory diverge." —David Lindley, New York Times Book Review
From: www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/
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I will have to look for it at the library or a used book store. First, I will browse through it at Barnes and Noble. Time to do my chores.
Chores completed for the present in any case. Scene three will jump to Mother who is talking to Mario before she receives Kassandra and Sophia.
Why just Mario, why isn’t Thales or Salamon along?
Mario doesn’t want them along.
That doesn’t seem cricket, it isn’t right.
Don’t you think Mother sees this?
I don’t know. What are you going to do here?
Show how mistrust eats away first at the heartansoul, then the mind.
But you can’t trust people, Amorella.
Why is this?
People are out for themselves first, at least most are.
Are you?
For basic survival I am out for family first, then friends. Well, first friends who are family. I don’t know how to put this.
Close enough. A reminder, the Dead are all family humananmarsupial though they don’t know it yet. Technically, they are marsupialanhuman as the marsupial-humanoids were living and dead first. Post. – Amorella.
I don't think humans would like that very much, to have marsupials first. I am a human writer.
Thus you are speaking from experience.
I just think some will find the concept offensive and arrogant on the marsupials' part.
To paraphrase one of your recent lines, "Frankly, I don't give a damn." Now post. - Amorella.
Sitting at Kroger’s on Tylersville after a late half lunch with Carol at Penn Station. I do enjoy the fact that Amorella remains consistent with the books. I have yet to see her deviate. This solidifies the ‘existential element’ in the books and both blogs.
This is the only way I will work, orndorff. Otherwise, people might have second thoughts. I am and will continue to be the foundation of these writings. You and Carol were talking about the BBC’s new production of “The Tudors” tomorrow night and you are going to copy it for a later view. Also, you found that “Merlin” is also on BBC-America. You both agree you watch a lot of television shows, but it goes back to thirty-five some years of not watching much, especially after nine o’clock. Thus, neither of you feel guilty. Again, the guilt is cultural. Cultures have lots of “should’s” and “ought’s”. Strong invisible commandments that are learned early on, learned to the point they become comfortable commandments. All cultures. This chapter is going to focus on this a bit. Platitudes. BS. Sheep dip.
I don’t know that “sheep dip” is a word, Amorella. Maybe I imagined it. Sometimes I sense a tone of anger in your words but assume it is me, that I am sermonizing and it makes me uncomfortable. I don’t like “commandments” either, it has a religious connotation and Moses parting the Red Sea flashes in my head. No religion or politics. Isn’t that right?
Your flash was not Biblical, orndorff. It was a cultural film in your younger days.
What in human cultures is not political and/or not religious oriented?
Serving your fellow-kind as you would be served. – Amorella.
That’s not much.
It will do in these books, boy. Post while you still have a mind for it. – Amorella.
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