----- Original Message ----- From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:42 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:First commercial license
> I expect most scientists would say it is not merely theory but a > fact > that hydrogen atoms do not shrink. This, I think we all agree, is a > peculiar assertion, since one cannot directly observe atoms. Some > scientists say things like this because they have such a vivid > imagination, and they are so used to dealing with abstractions, > their > ideas take on a corporeal reality. One of them once told me that he > knows for a fact that energy is conserved because: "I can feel it. > I > can see it being conserved." I did not ask what it felt like. > > Perhaps he meant that a gadget with a 2 W electric power supply > (such > as a modem) produces heat which an experienced person (me) can > judge > to be about 2 W by feel. > > - Jed > I can feel and see that the Earth does not move. ;-) Harry
