Sublime

Anderson joins philosopher Angela Potochnik and others in arguing that there exists no privileged scale for explanation. In fact each scale is characterized by its own laws, concepts, and generalizations, which cannot be explained by those of any other scale.

According to the principles of quantum mechanics, anything that can move does move, spontaneously. As a result, the distance between two points fluctuates. Upon combining general relativity with quantum mechanics, we calculate that space is a kind of quivering Jell-O, in constant motion.

Sa fascination pour ce fragment de cerveau me paraissait, en la circonstance, sacrément audacieuse. Jusqu’à ce que je découvre qu’un certain Thomas Harvey, pathologiste chargé de déterminer les causes de la mort d’Albert Einstein survenue le 18 avril 1955, avait, une fois son travail achevé, quitté l’institut dans lequel il travaillait, emportant a

cosmos, mas também enfatizou que temos uma tendência natural para acreditar que entidades misteriosas e vagamente percebidas regem o universo, versadas num conhecimento que podemos, quando muito, vislumbrar apenas em parte.

Max Delbrück was a Nobel laureate who studied physics and biology. He obviously believed that scientists should be careful and rigorous in their work. But he thought that a bit of looseness was helpful too, as it allowed room for the unexpected and accidental. He called this the Principle of Limited Sloppiness.