Word: galileo
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...China through unmanned missions are causing as much nervousness in Japan and the U.S. as the hero-making, nationalism-stirring manned flights. Both the U.S. and Japan cried foul when the European Space agency announced in 2003 that it was taking on China as a partner in its Galileo project, a new satellite navigation system that will compete with America's GPS network. "For a relatively small amount of money, so say the U.S. and Japan, the E.U. has given China possible access to European high technology in space with potential military applications," says Axel Berkofsky, senior policy analyst...
...ignorance is exactly why evolution must continue to be taught in schools. The people who oppose evolution so avidly are unaware of what it hypothesizes. I am a practicing Catholic but recognize that the church has made mistakes in the past when it comes to science. Copernicus and Galileo were both condemned for their assumptions of a heliocentric solar system. Does their theory mean that there is no God because Earth revolves around the sun? Does Darwin's theory mean that evolution was not part of God's plan? Please, keep faith where it belongs, and let science be science...
...famous anecdote, Galileo Galilei clambered to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, simultaneously dropped cannonballs of different sizes and found that they all hit the ground at the same time. He thus convinced the world--and in the years to come, Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein as well--that in a vacuum all objects, regardless of mass, fall at the same speed. Galileo's work went unchallenged until last week, when Purdue University Physics Professor Ephraim Fischbach, three of his graduate students and S.H. Aronson, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, reported discerning...
...courage to revisit the painful past, if not the willingness to let his church stand totally naked before it. Toward the end of the 20th century, reflecting on the Catholic Church's two millenniums, John Paul issued extraordinary apologies for the Inquisition and the Crusades. He rehabilitated Galileo for the "heresy" of espousing the theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system. In 1998 he released "We Remember," a much anticipated penance for the Holocaust. Many Jews criticized the document for confining itself to the culpability of individual Christians rather than admitting church complicity...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Galileo and Pope Paul V. Thomas à Becket and Henry II. Encounters between great figures, especially when their world views clash, can create historical watersheds. Such an encounter, writes James R. Gaines, took place on a spring evening in 1747, when an aged Johann Sebastian Bach arrived at the court of Frederick the Great, ruler of Prussia. Frederick, a music lover with as deep a passion for the arts as for waging war, had summoned Bach in order to set him a musical challenge--one that Bach triumphantly met two weeks later when he presented Frederick with...