What is "Twisters in Texas"? Cubers? ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike_go_uk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:18 AM Subject: [Speed cubing group] Re: (Off topic) Scientist John Dobson
> --- In [email protected], "David Skolnik" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He was talking about properties in > > the universe > > John Dobson is a great popularizer of astronomy. While he was a > Buddhist monk he invented the Dobsonian alt-az mounting, used in many > amateur "point and shoot" telescopes. > > But his views on the nature of the Universe are > somewhat "unconventional". You can read his thoughts at > > http://www.johndobson.org/jarticles.html > > and perhaps draw your own conclusions. > > > "even people at Caltech don't know why inertia > > happens, they only know how it happens." > > It's a good line, which applies to anything fundamental. > If you answer a long enough chain of "Why?" questions, eventually you > have to stop at something (currently!) regarded as fundamental and > say: "That's just how it seems to be." So in the end, what we are > left with as an "answer" to our original "Why?", is a very detailed > description of /how/. > > Mike > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
