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Originally Posted by neutralino  What are you talking about? Of course matter is not expanding! I'd like to see some real references as well please (you must know how to reference books: Title, author, publishing company, year of publication). I suspect that the part you've written in green is not written by Thompson. |
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Dear neutralino:
As stated in my post, the source of the information was acquired from J.W.N. Sullivan's Limitations of Science - Sullivan is ostensibly the author of both quotes, including the second one (in green).
Here's a portion of a google obtained, 1993 review, by Maura Flannery:
I'd like to discuss a book that I first saw on the bookshelf of a colleague. It's a paperback called
The Limitations of Science by J.W.N. Sullivan. It's a 1963 reprint (New York: Mentor) of a book which originally appeared in 1933. It caught my eye because I had read another book by Sullivan, the second volume in the series called
Aspects of Science (New York: Knopf, 1926). I really enjoyed it, and so I considered borrowing
Limitations, but never got around to it. When I came across it in a used bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin (which is full of bookstores) at $1.50, I couldn't resist. On the back cover, Sullivan is described as "a mathematician, philosopher, and musician, who was called at his death by
TIME magazine, 'one of the world's four or five most brilliant interpreters of physics to the world of common men.' " I had never heard of him until I read an article on the beauty of physics by S. Chandrasekhar, who quotes Sullivan (
Physics Today, 32 [1979], p.25). Since I'm interested in the aesthetics of science, I followed up on the quote and came to
Aspects of Science, which is a collection of essays. I enjoyed it because Sullivan was saying in 1926 many things which I think still need saying today: that science is an exciting, passionate occupation, that is it more than laws and facts presented in a dry form.