Ask a silly question…
Relativistic Baseball
Ask a silly question…
Nobel Prize for Physics
Science’s function is to describe processes, but it cannot pronounce on the purpose of things. Physicists and biologists have a right to say that in looking at matter and life scientifically, no evident purpose is discovered. They overstep their limits if they go on to require faith in pure chance as opposed to faith in a creator. In any decision which may have to be made between faith in God or in ‘blind chance’, the science of evolution is strictly neutral, and cannot be anything else.
“Origins of Religion” by Robert Brow
in “The World’s Religions: A Lion Handbook”. Ed by R Pierce Beaver, Tring: Lion, 1982.1st Ed. pp.30–34
in “The World’s Religions: A Lion Handbook”. Ed by R Pierce Beaver, Tring: Lion, 1982.1st Ed. pp.30–34
Funding
Just sat through my first experience of an STFC Town Meeting. This is a meeting of a group of physicists to discuss matters of the Science and Technology Facilities Council. It was almost exclusively about money: how the limited funding we get from the government should be allocated, and how we should try and get more money.
The government has, within the last few years, drastically dropped the level of investment in particle physics. This means that a number of existing and future projects have had to be scrapped, and other projects have had to be scaled down.
While I was listening to this discussion, I was thinking about how money should best be used. Continue reading “Funding”
homework
gosh physics is complicated!
– imported from matteaston.net
climate change?
what do you think of climate change? does it matter what we think?
please discuss!
