Planets in bullet-time: inside Ne(wt)o(n)'s apple

Date

2023年8月18日 (金) 14:00

Location

Lab 4, D01 "restaurant"

Description

A physics lecture for non-physicists.
Title: Planets in bullet-time: inside Newton's apple.
Speaker: Yasha Neiman.

A guided tour of the moment when the unity of Heaven and Earth was established (i.e. Newton's deciphering of Kepler's Second Law). 

Features:
1. How Earth Magic (technology) became truly potent through unification with Sky Magic (science).
2. Some things can only be seen in bullet-time (calculus).
3. Calculus as the ultimate reductionism.

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