History
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Apes on a Treadmill
‘It may be that we are jogging in tandem on a treadmill to nowhere.‘― Paul Warnke
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Dark Sun. The making of the hydrogen bomb, Richard Rhodes (ISBN 9780684824147, Simon & Schuster)
After having read ‘The making of the atomic bomb’ by Richard Rhodes I also had to read this book. It didn’t win the Pulitzer prize although it did make the short list for it. Compared to the award winning ‘The making of the atomic bomb’ I have to agree this book is not as excellent…
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Return of the Stone Age
‘The Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science.‘― Winston Churchill
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Hotel Sarov
‘A plane flies from Moskou to Sarov. Whoever comes here will never go back.‘― Anonymous
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New weapons
‘If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of the warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.‘― J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Exploring the Navigo Museum: A Fisherman’s History
Last week we visited the Navigo museum in Nieuwpoort. We last visited it a number of years ago when they had a photo expo from Stephan Vanfleteren. Since then the museum has modernised the presentation of its collection and is well worth a visit even if you visited in the past like us. The museum…
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Einstein’s Wife. The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric, Allen Chesterton & David Cassidy (ISBN 9780262538978, MIT Press)
I read about this book in the paper when it came out in 2020 but didn’t buy it immediately. Then, not so long ago I decided to buy and read the Einstein biography by Walter Isaacson and I also got this book about Mileva Maric which I read first. Mileva Maric, Einstein’s first wife was…
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The Great Beyond: Higher dimensions, parallel universes and the extraordinary search for a theory of everything, Paul Halpern (ISBN 9780471741497, Trade Paper Press)
I got a tip about this book from somewhere I cannot remember. But it was a lucky tip. The book is basically a short history of what has lead us to string theory. It starts of with the mathematical extension of Euclidian geometry to more dimensions by Riemann and Gauss. Then the link is made…
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