Word: linearized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much of the undergraduate physics curriculum is stuffed with quantum physics and obscure mathematics and geared towards producing future particle physicists. A much more relevant field that has witnessed a huge explosion of interest in the last five years is non-linear systems, as described in James Gleick's best-selling book Chaos. Along with fractals, applications are found everywhere from heartbeat rhythm to earthquakes. Yet the Physics Department doesn't offer a single course in the area to undergraduates...
...research programs. But "AIDS money is targeted," observes Donald Fredrickson, former director of the National Institutes of Health. The narrow focus reduces the chances of spin-off discoveries for other diseases. Says David Korn, dean of the Stanford School of Medicine: "The course of discovery in biology is not linear. When you target money too narrowly, you exclude other areas that may prove to be very fruitful...
...none of that, pro or con, has a thing to do with theories of creation, or the origin of life on earth. In a sense, we are all creationists. We differ ! only on the specifics. The idea of linear time is so embedded in our consciousness that we instinctively believe there must have been a beginning, a creation, a genesis. But on what impulse, whose design? That we can never know...