Post 4652431 - Re: Don't forget Newton (Your Favorite Scientist)

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Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 9:57 pm Post subject: Don't forget Newton

Oh man...Isaac Newton!!! I've loved him since 8 or 9th grade. Love gravity and his 3 rules of motion. I did a book report on him and read a small biography about him. He was my 8th grade nerd crush! Plus he had nice hair. Looks like Robert Plant lol!!

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Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 11:53 pm Post subject: Re: Don't forget Newton

Pinkbubble wrote:

Oh man...Isaac Newton!!! I've loved him since 8 or 9th grade. Love gravity and his 3 rules of motion. I did a book report on him and read a small biography about him. He was my 8th grade nerd crush! Plus he had nice hair. Looks like Robert Plant lol!!

Finally, another Newton fan. Very Happy

Newton was to physics what Darwin was to Biology-other people had hashed out the what, but they got a good approximation of the why.

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Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 4:28 am Post subject:

Nikola Tesla

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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 3:20 am Post subject:

Faraday! Stopped formal schooling at 12. But because he loves science, he found his way to enter the field despite financial setbacks. A great and conscientious experimentalist. He also had some writings about other aspects of life.

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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 4:23 am Post subject:

Newton, Einstein. John Nash.

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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 2:25 pm Post subject:

Max Planck, he came up with the basis for quantum mechanics/ quantum theory. That someone could even comprehend what electrons and such are doing back in the 1918 era astounds me. That, and anything to do with the speed of light has my attention. Einstein for the photoelectric effect, that metals can emit electrons due to photons of light knocking them off! :O These two worked off of each others ideas so I can't really decide... :S

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Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 3:46 pm Post subject:

CornerPuzzlePieces wrote:

Max Planck, he came up with the basis for quantum mechanics/ quantum theory. That someone could even comprehend what electrons and such are doing back in the 1918 era astounds me.

Planck was trying to deal with Black Body Radiation without running into the ultra-violet paradox. He attempted to do and end run around the Railiegh-Jeans law and discovered that regarding radiation as discrete would solve the problem. It was really Einstein who generalized Planck's result to deal with light.

He resolved the problem by figuring out the photo-electric effect.

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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 7:34 am Post subject:

ruveyn wrote:

edgewaters wrote:

I didn't know that at all. Has there ever been an apology to his family?

What family? Turing was a homosexual, he never married and never had children. His parents were dead and I believe he was an only child. It was Turing's sexual nature and the homophobia of the British establishment which led to the injustice committed against Turing.

ruveyn

There's always family. He would've had cousins, uncles, aunts etc. Maybe no direct family, but there would still be family, who are no doubt proud to call him one of theirs.

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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 10:17 am Post subject:

edgewaters wrote:

There's always family. He would've had cousins, uncles, aunts etc. Maybe no direct family, but there would still be family, who are no doubt proud to call him one of theirs.

It turns out his mother was alive when he committed suicide., The man who save Great Britain from the German U-boats was ill treated by his nation. Proving once again that no good deed shall go unpunished.

ruveyn

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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 10:21 am Post subject:

The guy who invinted LSD. and Gordon Freeman

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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: Don't forget Newton

Pinkbubble wrote:

Did you know that he was a religious mystic and an alchemist. He wrote three times more stuff on the secret meaning of the bible than he did on natural science.

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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 5:38 pm Post subject:

Charles Darwin is pretty insparational but Sigmund Freud is my favorite. _________________ “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" ~George Orwell "I belive in God, only I spell it Nature." ~ Frank Llyod Wright

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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 9:30 pm Post subject:

artrat wrote:

Charles Darwin is pretty insparational but Sigmund Freud is my favorite.

Oh Doktor Freud, Herr Doctor Freud

How we wish you had been differently empolyed

Instead of fooling with neurosis, you could have cured scleorosis

Oh what a waste Herr Doktor Freud.

Freudian psychiatry/psychology is pseudo-scientific crap-doodle.

ruveyn

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