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But since 1971, Stone applied his special and journalism to his old hobby--Socrates and classical literature. As he explained his examination of the number one gadfly of antiquity, "Its sort of a way to show how a reporter could go to work covering a trial that happened 2.500 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stone | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

You have grown up, realizing there is more to life than physics: se, literature, politics, guns, butter, Steve's Ice Cream, and maybe one or two other things. Likewise, philosophers now see that you cannot quite figure out the cosmos by thinking of it as a lot of particles--unless...

Author: By Brian A. Lynn, | Title: Getting Physical | 3/18/1983 | See Source »

Written 25 years ago--though only published last year--The Open Universe attacks Einstein's theory of determinism, which holds that with a sophisticated enough scientific approach, man can explain and predict all occurences. But the argument only rarely appears dated. Popper proves that classical theory can never fulfill the...

Author: By Brian A. Lynn, | Title: Getting Physical | 3/18/1983 | See Source »

Popper amplifies his position with numerous other arguments. Foremost of these is the famous "three-body problem" of classical physics: No exact solution exists for the equations describing the motion of systems which contain three or more particles--even if the initial conditions can be known exactly, our prediction must...

Author: By Brian A. Lynn, | Title: Getting Physical | 3/18/1983 | See Source »

It isn't long, though before be regrets his decision. The radio begins to lade and Freeman fiddles with the broken knobs on the dashboard. I always forget that 30 has the bum radio, he says. The radio is an important part of the job. The steady beat of WBOS...

Author: By Steven J. Parkey, | Title: All-Nighters on the Road | 3/12/1983 | See Source »

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