Category Archives: amaths-wars

Professor

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But now that we’ve come this far, being a professor (which means having the habit of not being able to stop talking at the right time), I cannot resist telling you something about the rest of physics.

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— p.130 Feynman’s QED: the strange theory of light and matter

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2008.12.26 Friday ACHK

情緒病

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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing.

The precise opposite is the case.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle–they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.

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— Alfred North Whitehead

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時常思考是一種壞習慣.

不要在毋須思考時思考.

— Translation by Me

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2008.12.25 Thursday copyright ACHK

Painting 2

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…, knowing it is the light that is driving me. I used to think I was the artist when I was painting. I now see, since my NDE, that I am only the brush, my life experiences are the paint, my life is the painting, and the world is the studio with love as the subject.

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— p.48 Lesson from the Light, by Kenneth Ring

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2008.12.19 Friday ACHK

Pauli effect

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Personality and reputation

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The Pauli effect was named after his bizarre ability to break experimental equipment simply by being in the vicinity. Pauli himself was aware of his reputation, and was delighted whenever the Pauli effect manifested.

每次Pauli一出現, 身邊就會起碼有一樣實驗儀器無端端壞咗.

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His supposed remarks when meeting another leading physicist, Paul Ehrenfest, illustrates this notion of an arrogant Pauli. The two met at a conference for the first time. Ehrenfest, though never having met Pauli, was familiar with his papers, and was quite impressed with them. After a few minutes of conversation,

Ehrenfest remarked “I think I like your papers better than you,”

to which Pauli shot back “I think I like you better than your papers.”

The two became very good friends from then on.

你都好衰格, 但係你o既論文寫得幾好.

你都幾好人, 不過你o既論文都幾垃圾.

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— Wikipedia, Edited and Translated by Me

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2008.12.15 Monday ACHK

Relativity

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相對論

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Lorentz had the mathematics,
Poincare had the philosophy,

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Einstein had the physics.

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— C. N. Yang

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To come very near to a true theory
and to grasp its precise application,
are two very different things,
as the history of science teaches us.

Every thing of importance has been said
before by somebody who did not discover it.

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— A. N. Whitehead, in The Organization of Thought, Greenwood Press, 1978, p.127

— C. N. Yang

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2008.12.13 Saturday ACHK

數學詩

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迴文詩

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春晚落花餘碧草，夜涼低月半梧桐。人隨雁遠邊城暮，雨映疏簾繡閣空。

空閣繡簾疏映雨，暮城邊遠雁隨人。梧桐半月低涼夜，草碧餘花落晚春。

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— 蘇軾‧七絕‧題織錦圖

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2008.12.13 Saturday ACHK

坐標幾何

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《方法論》(Discours de la methode)

是笛卡兒在1637年出版的著名哲學論著，對西方人的思維方式，思想觀念和科學研究方法有極大的影響.

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笛卡兒在方法論中指出，研究問題的方法分四個步驟：

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1. 永遠不接受任何我自己不清楚的真理，

就是說只要沒有經過自己切身體會的問題，不管有什麼權威的結論，都可以懷疑。

例如亞里士多德曾下結論說，女人比男人少兩顆牙齒。但事實並非如此。

2. 可以將要研究的複雜問題，盡量分解為多個比較簡單的小問題，一個一個地分開解決。

3. 將這些小問題從簡單到複雜排列，先從容易解決的問題著手。

4. 將所有問題解決後，再綜合起來檢驗，看是否完全，是否將問題徹底解決了。

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直到阿波羅1號登月工程的出現，科學家們才發現，有的複雜問題無法分解，必須以複雜的方法來對待，因此導致系統工程的出現，方法論的方法才第一次被綜合性的方法所取代。

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笛卡兒在方法論中還第一次提出「我思，故我在」的名言，第一次引入笛卡兒坐標系。對牛頓和萊布尼茨發明微積分理論有很大的作用。

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— 維基百科, edited by Me

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坐標幾何只是《方法論》附錄中的一個例子.

但是, 到了最後, 世人只知這個例子, 而不知原本的方法論.

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–Me

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2008.12.10 Wednesday copyright ACHK

精神分裂

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詹姆士一世（英文名James I）（1566年6月19日－1625年3月27日），英格蘭國王，1603年3月24日到1625年3月27日在位，同時也是蘇格蘭國王詹姆士六世（英文名James VI），1567年7月24日到1625年3月27日在位。

1603年，蘇格蘭國王詹姆士六世登基為英格蘭國王，從此英格蘭國王及蘇格蘭國王統一為一位君主。1707年，兩個王國合併為聯盟，成為聯合王國。

當1603年伊麗莎白一世駕崩後，都鐸王室也就跟著結束，由於伊麗莎白沒有子嗣，所以由蘇格蘭國王詹姆士六世繼位，成為英格蘭王詹姆士一世。 雖然英格蘭與蘇格蘭在同一個國君統治下共組共主邦聯，但是兩個王國仍然保持分離狀態。

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— 維基百科

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2008.12.09 Tuesday ACHK