Comments on: The Invisible Book

By: Al

Al — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:30:48 +0000

Re: Dick’s comment, above — reminds me of something I read about Newton. After he died, when his papers were catalogued, 20 or 25 percent of them had to do with scientific investigations. The vast majority concerned his explorations of the occult. You’re right, Dick — these are strange beings indeed

I don’t know if any of those papers survived, or if they were destroyed in a Bush-like effort to preserve his legacy. After all, in addition to being a towering mathematical and scientific genius, he was a well-connected politician who landed himself such positions as president of the Royal Society and director of the Royal Mint.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:34:01 +0000

Garbage mouth.

By: Barb

Barb — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:52:12 +0000

Knock it off, all of you. You’re putting a pain on my thinky bits.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:10:38 +0000

A friend of mine was kicked in the monads during a football game, and he gets urinary tract infections at the drop of a hint.

But, oddly enough, there’s a small but increasing number of theoretical physicists (Lee Smolin, Lisa Randall, and others) who are now returning to the idea that space and time may not be fundamental after all but, instead, may be manifestations of a deeper reality we haven’t yet fathomed.

The fathom strikes again.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:54:01 +0000

Dick’s right… If there was a God, we wouldn”t need integral or differential calculus… whatever that is. Stupid geniuses.

By: dick dell

dick dell — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:55:34 +0000

Leibniz, of course, was a mad genius who believed in something called “monads” or perceptions of reality which he felt was only ephemeral, or something like that. I never quite understood his thinking, but both Leibniz and Newton believed in God which tells you that they were both mad even though their mathematical minds were light years ahead of their time. They were both mutants like DaVinci, with minds thinking centuries ahead of their own times but trapped in the beliefs of their life time.

Leibnitz believed that “God had created the best of all worlds.” How nutty is that for a man who could develop integral and differential calculus?