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Friday, 28 March 2008 |
In his book, "Nature of the Physical World," Dr. Arthur Eddington describes the process of stepping into a room: "I am standing on the threshold about to enter a room. It is a complicated business. In the first place, I must shove against an atmosphere pressing with a force of fourteen pounds on every square inch of my body. I must make sure of landing on a plank traveling at twenty-miles-a-second 'round the sun. I must do this while hanging from a round planet, head outward into space." It's all very interesting, especially to the scientists whose business it is to analyze a common ordinary thing like walking into a room. But the great majority of us simply walk right in.
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