Most of us likely first heard the name Isaac Newton when we were in primary school. For some, it may have been in a classroom; for others it may have been while viewing a television program – most likely a cartoon. However, in most all instances, I’d be willing to wager that the name was […]
Presenting the essential concepts of the study of physics using examples from the biological sciences, Prof. Aegerter opens a door into a discipline that possesses a wealth of useful information to biologists that when presented in the manner physics is traditionally presented in may not seem only tangential but downright incomprehensible (physics being often counter-intuitive as well as sometimes even counter-experiential).
Written after he completed the final version of his General Theory of Relativity, Dr. Einstein wrote Relativity as a book that would explain both his special and general theories of relativity to a wide-ranging, non-specialist audience. Quite simply, it was intended to be a popular book.
“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of Have you read a work of Shakespeare’s?”
So declared C.P. Snow, CBE, in his now classic Rede Lecture of 1959, now published as “The Two Cultures.”