by neufer » Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:15 pm
JohnD wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 1:49 pm
"When I hear the word 'Culture' I reach for my revolver!"
- "When I hear the word 'Corona' I reach for my mask!"
JohnD wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 1:49 pm
The beauty of science is overwhelming - there is no need to embellish and decorate it with whimsy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey wrote:
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Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey DSO (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. The family coat of arms is blazoned as "
Sable, 3 mice courant, argent; crest, a domestic cat couched as to spring, proper". The family motto, displayed under its coat of arms, is "
As my Whimsy takes me." A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. Lord Peter is often assisted by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter.
Born in 1890 and ageing in real time, Wimsey is described as being of average height, with straw-coloured hair, a beaked nose, and a vaguely foolish face. Reputedly his looks were patterned after those of academic and poet Roy Ridley, whom Sayers briefly met after witnessing him read his Newdigate Prize-winning poem "Oxford" at the Encaenia ceremony in July 1913. Wimsey created a spectacularly successful publicity campaign for Whifflet cigarettes while working for Pym's Publicity Ltd, and at age 40 was able to turn three cartwheels in the office corridor, stopping just short of the boss's open office door. Among Lord Peter's hobbies, in addition to criminology, is collecting incunabula, books from the earliest days of printing. He is an expert on matters of food (and especially wine), male fashion, and classical music. He excels at the piano, including Bach's works for keyboard instruments. One of Lord Peter's cars is a 12-cylinder ("double-six") 1927 Daimler four-seater, which (like all his cars) he calls "Mrs Merdle" after a character in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit who "hated fuss".
Lord Peter Wimsey's ancestry begins with the 12th-century knight Gerald de Wimsey, who went with King Richard the Lionheart on the Third Crusade and took part in the Siege of Acre. This makes the Wimseys an unusually ancient family, since "Very few English noble families go that far in the first creation; rebellions and monarchic head choppings had seen to that", as reviewer Janet Hitchman noted in the introduction to Striding Folly.>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose wrote:
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
<<Sir Roger Penrose Kt OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is a British mathematical physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London. Penrose has made contributions to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and one half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity".
"Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe" is a book by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, released in September 2016. The book is based on his lectures that he gave at Princeton University in 2003. A reviewer of Publishers Weekly stated "Acclaimed English mathematical physicist Penrose ... gets to the heart of modern physics’ problem with subjectivity in this insightful and provocative pop-sci title... He writes with clarity and authority in this dense but rewarding discussion of scientific stumbles in the search for truth."
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1939231290 wrote:
<<Roger Penrose is 85, and a lot of the material in his new [
"Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy"] book has previously appeared in The Road to Reality and Cycles of Time. By all rights it should be awful, but in fact it's pretty good; none of the standard rules ever seem to apply to him. At the end, he complains in a slightly surprised tone that he's never understood why people call him a maverick. In fact, he has very conservative views on physics. He almost makes it sound plausible. Then, on the final page, he tells you about his father's strong belief that Shakespeare's plays were written by Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. As he says goodbye, he recommends in passing the original book on the subject, by J. Thomas Looney.>>
[quote=JohnD post_id=314052 time=1623246557 user_id=100329]
"When I hear the word 'Culture' I reach for my revolver!"[/quote]
[list]"When I hear the word '[b][i][color=#FF0000]Corona[/color][/i][/b]' I reach for my mask!"[/list]
[quote=JohnD post_id=314052 time=1623246557 user_id=100329]
The beauty of science is overwhelming - there is no need to embellish and decorate it with whimsy![/quote][quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey]
[float=right][img3="As my Whimsy takes me"]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Petherbridgeaslordwimsey.jpg[/img3][/float]
<<[b][color=#0000FF]Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey DSO[/color][/b] (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. The family coat of arms is blazoned as "[b][i][color=#0000FF]Sable, 3 mice courant, argent; crest, a domestic cat couched as to spring, proper[/color][/i][/b]". The family motto, displayed under its coat of arms, is "[b][i][color=#0000FF]As my Whimsy takes me[/color][/i][/b]." A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. Lord Peter is often assisted by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter.
Born in 1890 and ageing in real time, Wimsey is described as being of average height, with straw-coloured hair, a beaked nose, and a vaguely foolish face. Reputedly his looks were patterned after those of academic and poet Roy Ridley, whom Sayers briefly met after witnessing him read his Newdigate Prize-winning poem "Oxford" at the Encaenia ceremony in July 1913. Wimsey created a spectacularly successful publicity campaign for Whifflet cigarettes while working for Pym's Publicity Ltd, and at age 40 was able to turn three cartwheels in the office corridor, stopping just short of the boss's open office door. Among Lord Peter's hobbies, in addition to criminology, is collecting incunabula, books from the earliest days of printing. He is an expert on matters of food (and especially wine), male fashion, and classical music. He excels at the piano, including Bach's works for keyboard instruments. One of Lord Peter's cars is a 12-cylinder ("double-six") 1927 Daimler four-seater, which (like all his cars) he calls "Mrs Merdle" after a character in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit who "hated fuss".
Lord Peter Wimsey's ancestry begins with the 12th-century knight Gerald de Wimsey, who went with King Richard the Lionheart on the Third Crusade and took part in the Siege of Acre. This makes the Wimseys an unusually ancient family, since "Very few English noble families go that far in the first creation; rebellions and monarchic head choppings had seen to that", as reviewer Janet Hitchman noted in the introduction to Striding Folly.>>[/quote][quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose]
[float=left][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJGdrdbxlDU[/youtube][/float]
<<Sir Roger Penrose Kt OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is a British mathematical physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London. Penrose has made contributions to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and one half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity".
:arrow: [b]"[i][color=#0000FF]Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe[/color][/i]"[/b] is a book by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, released in September 2016. The book is based on his lectures that he gave at Princeton University in 2003. A reviewer of Publishers Weekly stated "Acclaimed English mathematical physicist Penrose ... gets to the heart of modern physics’ problem with subjectivity in this insightful and provocative pop-sci title... He writes with clarity and authority in this dense but rewarding discussion of scientific stumbles in the search for truth."
[quote=https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1939231290]
<<Roger Penrose is 85, and a lot of the material in his new [[b]"[i][color=#0000FF]Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy[/color][/i]"] book has previously appeared in The Road to Reality and Cycles of Time. By all rights it should be awful, but in fact it's pretty good; none of the standard rules ever seem to apply to him. At the end, he complains in a slightly surprised tone that he's never understood why people call him a maverick. In fact, he has very conservative views on physics. He almost makes it sound plausible. Then, on the final page, he tells you about his father's strong belief that Shakespeare's plays were written by Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford. As he says goodbye, he recommends in passing the original book on the subject, by J. Thomas Looney.>>[/quote][/quote]