Very interesting, thank you. I definitely do not have the scientific chops you do, but I find the "ultimate and controlling" phrase interesting from a philosophical perspective. I suspect that these laws we've discovered are not absolutely ultimate, but are just "true" in the sense that they are observably reliable, from our perspective, they are a "constant"
Well done! Excellent brief history of major changes in our collective understanding of nature in the early days of mosern Science. Love it! Any plans to discuss David Hume? I hear he has a spot in the philosophy and history of Science.
Doesn't nature still abhor a vacuum anyway? I was taught that! Doesn't it help the pump- along with the atmospheric pressure? Even 'empty space' isn't a vacuum....
BTW-pretty weird that we haven't been back to the moon or even made another soft landing on the moon in 50 years! Huh? Odd.
"A robotic lander built by a private company suffered a technical problem on its way to the moon on Monday, threatening to upend the first U.S. soft lunar landing in over 50 years."
Very interesting, thank you. I definitely do not have the scientific chops you do, but I find the "ultimate and controlling" phrase interesting from a philosophical perspective. I suspect that these laws we've discovered are not absolutely ultimate, but are just "true" in the sense that they are observably reliable, from our perspective, they are a "constant"
Well done! Excellent brief history of major changes in our collective understanding of nature in the early days of mosern Science. Love it! Any plans to discuss David Hume? I hear he has a spot in the philosophy and history of Science.
Doesn't nature still abhor a vacuum anyway? I was taught that! Doesn't it help the pump- along with the atmospheric pressure? Even 'empty space' isn't a vacuum....
BTW-pretty weird that we haven't been back to the moon or even made another soft landing on the moon in 50 years! Huh? Odd.
"A robotic lander built by a private company suffered a technical problem on its way to the moon on Monday, threatening to upend the first U.S. soft lunar landing in over 50 years."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/united-launch-alliance-moon-vulcan-peregrine-1.7077123
Excellent presentation, sir! I really look forward to your book.
Thanks for the kind words.