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 Topic: Bohr, Heisenberg and Schroedinger |
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| bcusanno2012 Replies: 19 Views: 3348 |
 Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:15 pm Subject: Bohr, Heisenberg and Schroedinger |
| Alright here are the main ideas I came away with in the reading...
What We Accept as Evidence: -The most impressive thing to physicists (and i would say to a certain extent all scientists) is &q ... |
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| Topic: Einstein! |
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| bcusanno2012 Replies: 23 Views: 3610 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:34 pm Subject: Einstein! |
| Just going of what Tess said about an "infinite number of truths", i think this idea radically changed how we perceive science. Up until now I had been defining science in my head as "t ... | |
| Topic: Newton’s View of the world pp. 102-112 |
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| bcusanno2012 Replies: 20 Views: 2881 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:12 pm Subject: Newton’s View of the world pp. 102-112 |
| I think the same ideas that have been troubling Kate and Tess have also been bothering me... I understand that the discoveries made about light obviously effected how later scientists understood and s ... | |
| Topic: Microhistory! due 9/23 |
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| bcusanno2012 Replies: 26 Views: 3609 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:14 pm Subject: Microhistory! due 9/23 |
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To go off of Dylan's prompt about the line between history and story, I kind of think the secondary sources we read about history like textbooks are the stories. They aren't fictional but they aren' ... |
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| Topic: Microhistory! due 9/23 |
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| bcusanno2012 Replies: 26 Views: 3609 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:46 pm Subject: Microhistory! due 9/23 |
| to a certain extent i agree with knaide, Contat was not (as far as i can tell from this source) concerned with writing the histories of people that were beyond his own experience, which i think is a p ... | |
| Topic: my 1st post of the night |
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| bcusanno2012 Replies: 28 Views: 4006 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:19 pm Subject: my 1st post of the night |
| so something interesting that's been turning up for me is the idea of "survival of the fittest". Although this idea is usually attributed to Darwin (and i think we learned in class today tha ... | |
| Topic: Kant and Hegel, Take One |
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| bcusanno2012 Replies: 21 Views: 3114 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:44 pm Subject: Kant and Hegel, Take One |
Thomas Hobbes: “every “every effect has a material cause and every cause always has the same effect” (pg. 5
He also argued that (as we have axioms in geometry) there are some aspects of the natura ... |
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| Topic: Galileo |
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| bcusanno2012 Replies: 21 Views: 2876 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:48 pm Subject: Galileo |
| To Galileo human authority is everything. Aristotle argued that objects have both form (an objects properties) and matter (the subject), and that these two components of objects are inseparable. Arist ... | |
| Topic: Herodotus and Thucydides |
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| bcusanno2012 Replies: 29 Views: 4804 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:16 pm Subject: Herodotus and Thucydides |
| Alright two things, the first seems like a wild tangent but bare (sp?) with me. I once heard this story on NPR about famous quotations, specifically famous misquotations. And one of the quotes they di ... | |
| Topic: Herodotus and Thucydides |
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| bcusanno2012 Replies: 29 Views: 4804 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:13 pm Subject: Herodotus and Thucydides |
| Herodotus did found the style of historical narrative, even if his priorities within this context don’t line up with what is emphasized by today’s historians. I see Herodotus the same way I see Aristo ... | |
| Topic: Due Thursday: Aristotle |
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| bcusanno2012 Replies: 22 Views: 2678 |
Forum: Art of Prediction Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:27 pm Subject: Due Thursday: Aristotle |
| To Aristotle change is a natural occurrence that an object undergoes (I’m a bit dubious about using the word “undergoes here”) within specific circumstances. There are three aspects of Aristotle’s phi ... | |
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