“Sometimes the gap between wrong and right is so negligible that we ignore it altogether. We pretend that the length of a day is 24 hours and that the ground beneath our feet is steady, when in fact the length… — Konstantin Kakaes Copy Share Image
“Jupiter radiates more heat into space than it absorbs from the sun.” — Konstantin Kakaes Copy Share Image
“By 2003, 31 years after it was launched, Pioneer 10 was 200,000 miles short of where every calculation said it should be. The “Pioneer Anomaly,” as it has come to be called, represented only 0.002 percent of the total distance the probe had traveled at the time. Then again, that’s also eight trips around Earth’s equator, or almost the distance… — Konstantin Kakaes Copy Share
“The textbook version is simple: experimenters find out things in the world, either by seeing them or by making them happen. Theorists try to… — Konstantin Kakaes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the gap between wrong and right is so negligible that we ignore it altogether. We pretend that the length of a day is… — Konstantin Kakaes Copy Share Image
“[T]he craft of science . . . is an oral tradition as much as a written one.” — Konstantin Kakaes Copy Share Image