By Arthur I. Miller
Since the Enlightenment, technological know-how has been noticeable as an aim, actual approach to clarification concerning the actual and mathematical legislation that specify and govern the universe. the twentieth Century has proven that technological know-how is usually a human company, educated by means of idealogy and different assumptions. during this e-book, extraordinary historian and thinker of technology Arthur Miller examines those and different very important questions about what and the way we all know in regards to the global. Dr. Miller additionally discusses, in non-technical language, our present principles in regards to the nature of clinical inspiration and rationalization, its relation to fact, and the connection among medical and customary experience. Does technological know-how, in its historic declare as an exalted recreation, stand above different human activities?
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Where are the "waves" in light? Addressing these questions ab out the nature of light will lead 18 COMMON SENSE AND SCIENTIFIC INTUITION us to reexamine the foundations of Newton's physics, including Newton's law for adding velocities. THE WAVINESS OF LIGHT WAVES The need for a medium to transport light had been apparent ever since Christiaan Huygens had investigated a wave representation for light in the seventeenth century. If light is a wave, there has to be some physical substance to wave. The milieu that waved was called the ether.
I never cease to be amazed how natural and comforting Aristotelian reasoning is, even to students who ought to know better. Whenever I te ach a history or philosophy of science course in which there are physics students, I ask them to imagine a situation in which they are a passenger in a moving train. If they dropped a stone, where would it land? No one immediately volunteers the correct reply (the stone would land direct1y under where it was dropped). Instead, there are murmured queries regarding wind resistance and other superfluous things.
Such a phenomenon had not been observed, and Einstein believed it never would be. 2. On the other hand, according to the thought experimenter's "intuition," there ought to be no measurable effects, and so the moving observer ought to measure the same velocity of light as someone at rest relative to the light's source. Einstein recalled that he rephrased options (1) and (2) as a "paradox": On the one hand(1) The velocity of light can be compounded with other velocities according to Newton's addition law for velocities.