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 Topic: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger |
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| Naomi Ingber Replies: 15 Views: 1284 |
 Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:59 pm Subject: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger |
| Bohr changed how we think about atoms, giving us the idea that electrons have "free choice" (p. 128) and that it is impossible to imagine them because of this. He moved the discipline of sci ... | |
| Topic: Einstein, Michaelson, Morley and More |
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| Naomi Ingber Replies: 17 Views: 945 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:54 pm Subject: Einstein, Michaelson, Morley and More |
| Like basically everyone else, I didn't really get the reading like at all. What really lost me is when it started talking about how you can never reach the speed of light. If that's the case, how can ... | |
| Topic: Newton Reading - How did Light change science? |
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| Naomi Ingber Replies: 17 Views: 843 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 7:50 pm Subject: Newton Reading - How did Light change science? |
| The thing that stood out to me the most in terms of how studying light changed science is Newton's invention of the scientific method. Before him, there were a few scientists before him who really bel ... | |
| Topic: Contat and Cats |
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| Naomi Ingber Replies: 21 Views: 947 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:39 pm Subject: Contat and Cats |
| Like other people have been saying, I don't believe Contat was an historian. However, I don't think this has anything to do with the reliability of his story or because he was trying to be artistic. I ... | |
| Topic: Darwin, Marx, Turner |
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| Naomi Ingber Replies: 17 Views: 843 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 6:18 pm Subject: Darwin, Marx, Turner |
| In response to Hope's question:
Do you think that writers like Marx, Darwin and Turner were influenced directly by Hegel’s dialectic or that Hegel put words to a process that already existed? Thus, w ... |
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| Topic: Darwin, Marx, Turner |
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| Naomi Ingber Replies: 17 Views: 843 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2014 12:40 pm Subject: Darwin, Marx, Turner |
| Turner's breakdown of American history is extremely similar to Marx's breakdown of the entire history of civilization. According to Marx, the state of civilization closest to his ideal is the "pr ... | |
| Topic: Kant and Hegel |
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| Naomi Ingber Replies: 20 Views: 894 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:35 pm Subject: Kant and Hegel |
| Cause and effect:
Thomas Hobbes believed that cause and effect could be understood intellectually, without experience of any kind. Humes finally challenged this claim by pointing out that without the ... |
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| Topic: Galileo |
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| Naomi Ingber Replies: 19 Views: 874 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 9:39 pm Subject: Galileo |
| Galileo would argue that the more you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know. His story about the man who wanted to figure out how all sounds were made demonstrates this belief; at the end ... | |
| Topic: Herodotus and Thucydides |
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| Naomi Ingber Replies: 22 Views: 1244 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 12:02 am Subject: Herodotus and Thucydides |
| My definition of history: Like Mark said, history can either be defined as the past itself or the study of the past. In this context, I think that it is more helpful to think of history as not only th ... | |
| Topic: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature |
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| Naomi Ingber Replies: 21 Views: 1042 |
Forum: Art of Prediction - Mod 6, 2014 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 11:00 pm Subject: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature |
| What is Aristotle’s view of reality, and how does it differ from Plato’s?
Aristotle’s philosophy was based on the real world. While Plato believed that objects have an “eternal form” that is indepe ... |
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