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Real science can't compete at the movies with bad science. But perhaps that's how it is meant to be.
"I'm arresting you for breaking the laws of physics," says the policeman to the levitating man, in a cartoon that speaks volumes about the curiously legalistic terminology that science sometimes adopts.
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As an extra credit exercise, readers skilled in calculating
the black body temperature of comic book characters in action are invited to reckon the color temperature an Oscar winner ought to reach while conjuring a sea level rise of 20 feet in 108 minutes of running time.
This superhero's previous personal best was accelerating the rate of species extinction to infinity in a single bounding graph, albeit that performance has been expunged, if not from the record books of the factoid Olympics, at least from the new edition of _The Earth In The Balance_.
Posted by: Russell Seitz | July 17, 2007 12:37 AM
I do not think the issue here is false advertising, wishes to sell science (is more truthful than science fiction and truth is better for learning and maturity)-if a natural ethic exists, i.e. an inherited ethic that paints a line men should not cross in their relationships with nature, either party, Hollywood or the "Science HiWay Patrol"
might be guilty. Those screen writters and actors are so flighty they could anger anyone dedicated to rigorous logic. Bertand Russell thought that something "mathematical or otherwise" was inherent to all things. Fifty men can see more of another and hence of eachother than one alone. A baseball pitchers arm has a limited latitude of movement wirth respect to the pitcher hiomself, who has three hundred and sixty degrees to walk in any direction he chooses. We onlyhave the latitude each of the pitcher though, and three men wired together in tandom(each moving the other to the end-in a chain- who throws the ball) is logically feasible-but against the law, yet a potential scientific solution to whatever problem. Hollywood just has the word "lever, fulcrum" and what ever they might make of it with a free use of language-but such language coul possibly lie about the scientist-its' not the truth of science. Maybe the scientist hasn't yet realized his broken law, but does realize he could be impeded in this pursuit, with Hollywooods interpretation of "anything goes" which is far off revelation of anykind-scientific philosophical or otherwise. knowing the truth of what the scientist thinks is important to him, he is the agent building the tools of science. Until he himself knows the speed limit, it might be important in education, public education/awareness that a thought exists of it.
If the speed of light, for instance (the national bureau of standards has made it the standard for the meter) is not a constant for instance, all of our hiway radar setting could be wrong-told how to think-our minds governed by speed instead of size/distance-makes a difference as to what we know.
Science patrol + Hollywood=a forgotten ethic in the form of the real size of a person the world.
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Posted by: Marvin E. Kirsh | July 24, 2007 07:16 AM
I do not think the issue here is false advertising, wishes to sell science (science is more truthful than science fiction and truth is better for learning and social maturity)-if a natural ethic exists, i.e. an inherited ethic that paints a line men should not cross in their relationships with nature, either party, Hollywood or the "Science HiWay Patrol"
might be guilty. Those screen writers and actors are so flighty they could anger anyone dedicated to rigorous logic. Bertand Russell thought that something "mathematical or otherwise" was inherent to all things. Fifty men can see more of another and hence of each other than one alone. A baseball pitchers arm has a limited latitude of movement with respect to the pitcher himself, who has three hundred and sixty degrees to walk in any direction he chooses. We only have the latitude each of the pitcher though, and three men wired together in tandem(each moving the other to the end-in a chain- who throws the ball) is logically feasible-but against the law, yet a potential scientific solution to whatever problem. Hollywood just has the word "lever, fulcrum" and what ever they might make of it with a free use of language-but such language could possibly lie about the scientist-its' not the truth of science. Maybe the scientist hasn't yet realized his broken law, but does realize he could be impeded in this pursuit, with Hollywood’s interpretation of "anything goes" which is far off revelation of any kind-scientific philosophical or otherwise. knowing the truth of what the scientist thinks is important to him, he is the agent building the tools of science. Until he himself knows the speed limit, it might be important in education, public education/awareness that a thought exists of it.
If the speed of light, for instance (the national bureau of standards has made it the standard for the meter) is not a constant for instance, all of our hiway radar setting could be wrong-told how to think-our minds governed by speed instead of size/distance-makes a difference as to what we know.
Science patrol + Hollywood=a forgotten ethic in the form of the real size of a person the world.
http://www.marvinekirsh.com
http://www.authorsden.com/marvinelikirsh
Posted by: Marvin E. Kirsh | July 24, 2007 07:24 AM