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| | | From: Old Coot (Original Message) | Sent: 11/20/2008 2:23 AM |
a good start on "A Briefer History of Time". Pulled a Flora and took a look at the back of the book. There are about 1 1/2 page write ups on Einstein, Galileo, and Newton.
Jen, my opinion of Newton now is even lower than before when I was reading the Einstein book. Nope on the technical contributions that he made, but in his personal life, he was a much bigger AH than I ever thought. I surely would hate to have Hawking take me down. hoho
I'm about a third of the way though an easy read and not at all technically deep. I suspect that a 12 or younger would enjoy the book.
Pikes, I opted for the "Briefer" version since it more up to date.
oc...will report more later.... |
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Same great taste. Less filling. Like the Bud Lite Church. Only seven commandments. Six and one half apostles. No Matthew because Luke is cool, and everyone needs a Mark and a John. Two Titus. Titus I and Titus II, for balance. |
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Xer, I'm a bit over half way through the book. It is great! Hawking has the gift of presenting complicated material in an understandable way. This particular book is written for the non-technical person and I think that Hawking has outperformed my "idol" Greene in his descriptions. His discussion of "black hole" is the best I have ever read.
oc..BTW, the only formula in the book is E=mc2 |
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The cool thing about that, is the simpler explanation opens up a door to comprehension of the most complex, granting access, and giving people the understanding that differences between them and Einstein aren't all that great. In other words, genius can be anywhere, with just a simple prefaced explanation. For me, genius is that ability to take the complex, and break it down into the utterly simple, so almost anyone universally understands it. |
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Cooter...I've found that some of the most amazing artists and thinkers have been rather enormous AHs! I think there's something to the oversimplified analogy that a friend of mine made: we're born with a dozen eggs, and you can distribute them equally among intelligence, common sense, creativity, interpersonal skills, etc. If you do so, you are what psychos call "normal". If, however, you're an amazing pianist (Chopin), artist (throw a rock), writer (another rock), then you're probably short in another basket. |
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The only relative of mine, very distant, who owns a farm in Kansas, is only a thinker if E. Fudd, or another serious lisper says it. |
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Then again, if we each nest an egg in every cup, we're into egg production, and that makes us chicken farmers. Adjective chicken. |
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| | From:  _Xer | Sent: 11/21/2008 7:17 PM |
| Is that another chicken joke? __Jo Anne Worley |
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So why Did the thinker cross the road? |
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 11/21/2008 11:20 PM |
So why Did the thinker cross the road?
To get away from Chatsworth Osborne, Jr?
 "My name is Dobie Gillis and I like girls. What am I saying? I love girls! Love 'em! beautiful, gorgeous, soft, round, creamy girls. Now, I'm not a wolf, mind you. No, you see a wolf wants lots of girls, but me? Well, I just want one. One beautiful, gorgeous, soft, round, creamy girl for my very own. That's all I want! One lousy girl! But I'll tell you a sad, hard fact. I'm never gonna get a girl. Never. Why? Because to get a girl you need money. And standing between me and money is a powerful obstacle: a POWERFUL obstacle!"
(cut to Dobie's dad)
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| | | From: _Xer | Sent: 11/21/2008 11:21 PM |
<grrr stupid html...>
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Dobie-uh finally got a girl, and he got that power he wanted. Dobie-uh, will give up that power on January 20th. |
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