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logic, science and Einstein
Jun. 3rd, 2005 10:09 pmWell I just finished listening to a CBC Radio special (Ideas) on Albert Einstein as it's been 100 years since the publishing of a year of groundbreaking materials (1905)....
Anyways - one thing stuck out (amongst many) - he's responsible for proving that "universal" laws are actually universal - that a set of laws can be used define behaviour past, present and future, and in any number of other settings (speeds, motion variance, ...). For more information dig into his work on "frames of reference".
So to answer another step in the millenia of history of science thing - it's only really in the last century that science has had enough "proof" behind it to suggest that it actually CAN model reality well enough that we do not need another model.
It also tells me there's a lot of Einstein's work has modelled my own thinking on physics.
Ta!
Anyways - one thing stuck out (amongst many) - he's responsible for proving that "universal" laws are actually universal - that a set of laws can be used define behaviour past, present and future, and in any number of other settings (speeds, motion variance, ...). For more information dig into his work on "frames of reference".
So to answer another step in the millenia of history of science thing - it's only really in the last century that science has had enough "proof" behind it to suggest that it actually CAN model reality well enough that we do not need another model.
It also tells me there's a lot of Einstein's work has modelled my own thinking on physics.
Ta!
