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...keen follower of the phenomena associated with Harry Potter, Notebook was mildly scandalized by the photo and caption below, which appeared in the pages of our very own magazine. We worried that even a hint of lasciviousness associated with the bespectacled boy wizard could ruin one great AOL Time Warner franchise-in-the-making. (We've got pensions to worry about.) Imagine our consternation when we found that sexual currents have been swirling around Harry's broomstick for years. "Harry had closed his eyes when he felt Draco's lips descend on his once again, and this time indifference fled...
...didn’t. Or as Weinberg puts it, “Nature cares little about what scientists prefer.” Only the Standard Model, despite its various weaknesses, comes close to explaining our world. Yet the question remains as to whether another theory would explain all the phenomena we’ve encountered, and we just haven’t found it yet. Weinberg counters that although there may be, for instance, ways of describing the laws of electromagnetism different from the standard Maxwell’s equations, “there is no valid alternative...
...correctness of that Standard Model. He debunks claims that science changes with time and culture, arguing that the physics of today is the same physics of Maxwell or Einstein at the turn of the century, only more detailed. Though we have much more accurate explanations of physical phenomena, Newton’s laws of nature remain logical simplifications of them, and are indeed still the first things taught to high school students...
...they conform to those observations. To his critics, the very nature of who Weinberg is affects those observations, and thus they can’t be counted on to deliver the fundamental truth. That said, precise, specific and, above all, accurate examples of how cultures experience physical phenomena differently are hard to come by. In fact, it seems obvious that these arguments are dubious at best. As Alan Sokal, one of the main antagonists of the science-as-a-social-construct view, points out in an unpublished letter to the New York Times, “What could [science critic...
...extract nitrogen from the air for use in fertilizer. He eventually presented a theory—proven years after his lonely death—that the origin of the beautiful waves of the borealis were rooted in the Earth’s electromagnetic field and the energy from similar phenomena...