“The textbook version is simple: experimenters find out things in the world, either by seeing them or by making them happen. Theorists try to explain these things. And when an experiment produces results theories can’t explain, someone comes up with… — 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… — Konstantin Kakaes Copy Share Image
“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