Greatest physicists of all time

[jason_c]

Leibnitz invented the Calculus. Maxwell had his silver hammer.

Sorry, this is not true. The general consensus today is that Leibniz and Newton both independently invented calculus. Some give Leibniz greater credit while others give greater credit to Newton. I think most believe Newton probably invented it first but the timleline is still open for debate. A middle ground of giving both men credit for the invention of calculus is thus generally accepted.

[Abby Normal]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_Silver_Hammer

Thanks Robert
I still don't get how it pertains to newton though.
unless he means that "maxwells silver hammer" was the calculus that Newton used describe gravity.

[Robert]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_Silver_Hammer

[Abby Normal]

Leibnitz invented the Calculus. Maxwell had his silver hammer.

no comprende on the second sentence. Please explain?

[Scott Nelson]

Leibnitz invented the Calculus. Maxwell had his silver hammer.

[Abby Normal]

Krauss has a lot of great youtube videos but there is one with Richard Dawkins that is just tremendous. I will see if I can find it.

c.d.

Thanks! Yes, he's awesome. Right now I'm struggling with Roger Penrose Road to reality. I think it might actually be a physics textbook. LOL!

[c.d.]

If you go to Google and put in Dawkins/Krauss/Arizona State University it will bring it up. A brilliant lecture by the two of them.

c.d.

[c.d.]

Krauss has a lot of great youtube videos but there is one with Richard Dawkins that is just tremendous. I will see if I can find it.

c.d.

[c.d.]

Hello Abby,

I hope you understood it better than me. I have to admit that I am struggling at times.

c.d.

[Abby Normal]

I am currently reading "A Universe from Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss or should I say attempting to read since I was an English Literature major and always pretty dumb in science. It addresses the question of whether the universe can create itself from "nothing." I have heard that Krauss is a candidate for the Nobel Prize.

He is also an atheist and so the book attempts to address the question of whether the universe requited a creator.

c.d.

Hi cd
Just finished reading it. Fascinating stuff.

[c.d.]

I absolutely love Neil deGrasse Tyson although I guess technically he is an astrophysicist. I think he is brilliant and I love his sense of humor and his ability to explain things in a simple manner. His passion for science and learning is infectious.

c.d.

[c.d.]

Hello Sam,

I am sure that you are familiar with Samuel Johnson's comment regarding personal hygiene. But for those that aren't he apparently was not given to frequent bathing. Sharing a carriage with a woman, she looked at him with disgust and said "Sir, you smell. To which Johnson replied "on the contrary madam, I stink you smell."

c.d.

[Sam Flynn]

Yeah, how cool is it to INVENT Calculus.

Although on the less flattering side I have read that [Newton's] personal hygiene was not up to snuff.

Not that he'd have worried about it unduly, as he had little regard for matters corporeal - to the extent that, curious about how human vision worked, he once shoved a bodkin into his own eye to jiggle the lens and observe the effects it produced.

[c.d.]

A hydrogen atom lost its electron and went to the police station to file a missing electron report. He was questioned by the police: "Haven't you just misplaced it somewhere? Are you sure that your electron is really lost?"

I'm positive, came the reply.

A turtle walks into a police station to report that he has been beaten up by snails. The police officer asks him if he got a good look at them. He says no, it all happened so fast.

c.d.

[c.d.]

Newton may well have been the greatest mathematician of all time, in my opinion.

Yeah, how cool is it to INVENT Calculus.

Although on the less flattering side I have read that his personal hygiene was not up to snuff.

c.d.