remember.kelly

no seu livro "Sonhos do meu pai."

Answer this on two levels!

in the words of one of his characters.

If the former case applies (objective description), does that imply that objective reality exists? (For example, classical physics assumes that, and it works for most things, but we know that that does not prove the assumption as being valid)

O que voçês acham do livro?

I'm a physicist who had a graduate student working for me who had completed the course work for a Master's degree in electrical engineering from a major university. Although by no means a dummy, he tried for three months without success to solve Bessel's equation, and even after I showed him twice how to solve the simple linear d.e. y'(x) + a x =f(x), he was still mystified by it.

My perception is that today's students, like this one, come out of school knowing every kind of software and computer language, but little science and mathematics. What do you think?

I would not have known at the time, for I was too young to realize that I was supposed to have a live-in father, just as I was too young to know that I needed a race. For an improbably short span it seems that my father fell under the same spell as my mother and her parents; and for the first six years of my life, even as that spell was broken and the worlds that they thought they'd left behind reclaimed each of them, I occupied the place where their dreams had been.

“The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. . . . The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. . . . It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”

It is rumored that she has a bachelor degree in journalism, and that she attended six different colleges to get that far. None of them seem to be forthcoming in making her transcripts public, however.

By contrast, Barack Obama graduated from Columbia with a political science degree, and has a law degree from Harvard. He also wrote two excellent books detailing his life, family, professional life, and personal beliefs and views.

Is it smarter than the sum of its parts, or dumber than the dumbest of its components? Why is it not responding to the proposed $700B bailout? Or is it? Does it see a deeper problem, and is waiting for a proposal for a solution of that?

Is it because he has a heart-felt disdain of them, or is it because he fears that doing so would mean for him to lose votes?

Somebody drops a ball (without throwing), or any number of balls, so that they bounce from a hard floor. What is the maximum height (as fraction or multiple of the original height) that any ball can rise?

but never mentions the military budget?

The $4-million research project is expensive, granted, but has accurately measured the grizzly population in Yellowstone, which will in the long run reduce further costs and help save that population.

In his will, Alfred Nobel stated that the prizes should go to those who benefited humanity in some (tangible?) way. I don't recall the exact wording, but I encourage you to look it up. Does that mean that nuclear physics, which has as main impact produced the nuclear bomb, should have been excluded?