I admit it.
Some 'time ago planned to close this space to open another one called "Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland", inspired by the book G. Gamow when I received the news of travel to Belgium, to make the argument. And I got in late morning.
Who is Mr. Tompkins is that has to do with the denial and chaos and this blog?
factor. First of all
Mr. Tompkins is a town in a nondescript bank clerk who finds himself thrown into a dreamlike world where the speed of light is about 50 km / h, and fails to understand the amazing effects of the theory of relativity, explained the characters encountered from time to time in that fantasy world. Only a genius like
G. Gamow could imagine to publish a popular book on relativity as if it were a comic book or a film by Mel Brooks.
But you know, Gamow was an eccentric character, a wine lover and student spirit, once declared that God had to be not less than 9 light-years from Earth in the 18 years after the outbreak of war between Japan and Russia, following the prayers of Orthodox Christians, Japan was ravaged by a devastating earthquake: evidence not only of the existence of god, but also the fact that the prayers and the effects of divine providence can travel at most as the speed of light ...
So maximum respect to Gamow, who insisted so much so that his friend Bethe he signed with a landmark article on the theories of nucleosynthesis and big-bang, despite the work was mainly engages his student Ralph Alpher, who compromised so an academic career. For the scientific community, the essay " Alpher-Bethe-Gamow" released April 1, 1948, is considered the cornerstone of the big-bang theory. So
birth, finally. For a while, 'I detach the August Taurinorum, to the north. Netherlands, Belgium, Louvain-la Neuve. Then, perhaps, Mannheim and Nuremberg, Germany, passing from Oslo. To work for the thesis.
Little stuff, no more than two months in all, but enough to feel a bit 'as Mr. Tompkins.
And as the genius of Gamow, who I admire so much, that he had always one for every occasion.
PS
Then you know, reality is never like you 's were imagined, and instead of opening a new blog by that name, I opened another, which has nothing to do with Mr. Tompkins: nomastellanoparty
perhaps become the space devoted to "Paranoia & Power." We'll see, there is no certainty of tomorrow.
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