Saturday, May 03, 2008
Journey to the Pinnacle of Physics
Cool book. Its free.... http://motionmountain.com/
Random Extract
"children spend a lot of time throwing objects around. The term‘object’ is a Latin word meaning ‘that which has been thrown in front.’ Developmental psychology has shown experimentally that from this very experience children extract the concepts of time and space...
Adult physicists do the same when studying motion at university."
"it is not the flow of time that humans are unable to stop, but the motion of all the objects in nature."
