[FRIAM] FW: Einstein: physics for English Majors

[Nick Thompson]

Thanks, Steve,

 

Old habits die hard.  VERY hard.  

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Guerin
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2019 3:44 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: [FRIAM] FW: Einstein: physics for English Majors

 

Reposting Nick's original email with a web link to the paper instead of an attachment (10MB).  The book he references is here:

 

     http://redfish.com/friam/evolutionofphysi033254mbp.pdf

 

note: the FRIAM listserv currently has a 1MB attachment limit. It doesn't sound like a big file but if it goes to >500 subscribers that's 5GB of traffic.


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From: Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net <mailto:nickthompson at earthlink.net> >
Subject: FW: Einstein: physics for English Majors

 

Dear Friamers, 

My wife, who haunts the dusty back stacks of local libraries and brings me treasures, brought me a copy of the attached book, which I later located on line.  It takes me from Gallileo to Quanta.  It is calmly and simply written.  For anybody who thinks that relativity gives warrant for relativism, it will be, I think, an education.   The second author is a Polish physicist who collaborated with Einstein for a couple of years at Princeton before going on to the University of Toronto.  How two writers for whom English was not a first language, write so intimately and lucidly on such complex matters is a wonder to me. I am also startled by how closely the philosophy of science – it’s “idealist realism” – parallel’s Peirce’s.    

 

Great summer read! 

 

Nick 

 

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