Comments on: Conforming To Gravity https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/12/conforming-to-gravity/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: PeterCooper https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/12/conforming-to-gravity/#comment-3871 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 06:12:18 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5903#comment-3871 Hi Lowen. There are some excellent courses on, fx. Coursera, EdX and Khan Academy. These are free unless you want a fancy certificate and are available at different levels. Be warned, these can be highly addictive! ?

]]> By: Jpatrick https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/12/conforming-to-gravity/#comment-3866 Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:54:06 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5903#comment-3866 When confronted with this and other phenomena, I sometimes wonder if mathematics has taken us as far as it can. Eugene Wigner in his 1960 essay entitled The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences closes with this thought:

“The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.”

]]> By: Lowen Zeiner https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/12/conforming-to-gravity/#comment-3865 Wed, 13 Apr 2016 03:28:13 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5903#comment-3865 Thank you for your insight. I am very much a novice, who mistakenly thought they could ” google” ( What is Gravity?) and get the answer. I am 56 and thought maybe I wasn’t paying attention in my science class, when the subject was discussed. There are a lot of facts presented as defining the effect of gravity. ( I already know what it does, I wish to know why and how it exists.) Yesterday , I read Gravity exists because of the warping of spacetime. Then it became very complicated, using terminology and phrasing I’ve never heard of before. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ll probably never possess the intellectual capacity to understand the phenomon. But I do not find this disconcerning, in that far greater minds have been trying to solve this riddle for hundreds of years. I heard that Albert Einstein was quoted as saying “Unless you can explain it to a six year old, you really don’t understand it yourself”. Please keep posting, and I’ll keep reading. Lowen

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