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BMAONE23 wrote:Don't be standing near the nest when that bird decides to goBeyond wrote:
A NESTING FALCON.
(It is a good thing that Cows don't fly)
wonderboy wrote:
How many theoretical physicists specializing in general relativity does it take to change a light bulb?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del#Later_years_and_death wrote:
<<In 1951, Kurt Friedrich Gödel (April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) demonstrated the existence of paradoxical solutions to Albert Einstein's field equations in general relativity. He gave this elaboration to Einstein as a present for his 70th birthday. These "rotating universes" would allow time travel and caused Einstein to have doubts about his own theory. His solutions are known as the Gödel metric.
During his many years at the Institute, Gödel's interests turned to philosophy and physics. He studied and admired the works of Gottfried Leibniz, but came to believe that a hostile conspiracy had caused some of Leibniz's works to be suppressed. To a lesser extent he studied Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl. In the early 1970s, Gödel circulated among his friends an elaboration of Leibniz's version of Anselm of Canterbury's ontological proof of God's existence. This is now known as Gödel's ontological proof.
In later life, Gödel suffered periods of mental instability and illness. He had an obsessive fear of being poisoned; he would eat only food that his wife, Adele, prepared for him. Late in 1977, Adele was hospitalized for six months and could no longer prepare Gödel's food. In her absence, he refused to eat, eventually starving to death. He weighed 65 pounds (approximately 30 kg) when he died. His death certificate reported that he died of "malnutrition and inanition caused by personality disturbance" in Princeton Hospital on January 14, 1978.>>
I noted the word "archtype" when I clicked the emergency button and noted that whoever had written the text is mildly dyslexic.
The physicists changing a light bulb by rotating the universe! 
If he really tried to prove, mathematically, the existence of God, then I guess I suspect he was a few nails short of a full tool kit. Poor guy, he starved to death because he feared being poisoned.One still requires paper.Nitpicker wrote:
Heard the one about the constipated theoretical physicist?
In northern Sweden in the 18th and even 19th century, they used sticks. A son could inherit his father's favorite utensil.Nitpicker wrote:Heard the one about the constipated theoretical physicist?
What did the daughters inheritAnn wrote:In northern Sweden in the 18th and even 19th century,Nitpicker wrote:
Heard the one about the constipated theoretical physicist?
they used sticks.
A son could inherit his father's favorite utensil.
The wisdom of including fiber in one's diet.neufer wrote: What did the daughters inherit
And the appreciation of having a good antiseptic in the homeowlice wrote:The wisdom of including fiber in one's diet.neufer wrote: What did the daughters inherit
IF i were the kid, I'd chuck that little assinine gold watchneufer wrote:Neufer's video
It was clearly a rough age.owlice wrote:The wisdom of including fiber in one's diet.neufer wrote:
What did the daughters inherit
I bought that book when it was new, which seems like a century ago. It was a good read the first time through. Then the second time I realized how much I'd missed the first time. Then I loaned it to a friend and haven't seen it since, so I never did give it a third try. Maybe I'll pick it up and put it in my iPad. It doesn't matter how many books I put in it - it doesn't get any heavier.Ann wrote:... Guess I mix them up because I have a book titled Gödel, Escher, Bach, which I haven't read. ...
Actually, it should get lighter as you add books. Information is a form of energy, which manifests as mass. And a book has less information than the random bits present before you load the book.rstevenson wrote:I bought that book when it was new, which seems like a century ago. It was a good read the first time through. Then the second time I realized how much I'd missed the first time. Then I loaned it to a friend and haven't seen it since, so I never did give it a third try. Maybe I'll pick it up and put it in my iPad. It doesn't matter how many books I put in it - it doesn't get any heavier.
I haven't read it, either, though it's in the house; the kid read it in 8th grade, when he had to do a project for music class. (Hey, it had Bach in the title...rstevenson wrote:I bought that book when it was new, which seems like a century ago. It was a good read the first time through. Then the second time I realized how much I'd missed the first time. Then I loaned it to a friend and haven't seen it since, so I never did give it a third try. Maybe I'll pick it up and put it in my iPad. It doesn't matter how many books I put in it - it doesn't get any heavier.Ann wrote:... Guess I mix them up because I have a book titled Gödel, Escher, Bach, which I haven't read. ...
Rob
) He ended up doing the project on Beethoven, but was glad to have read GEB.
