14 ideas
411 | If we succeed in speaking the truth, we cannot know we have done it [Xenophanes] |
412 | If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter [Xenophanes] |
7810 | The 'Eumenides' of Aeschylus shows blood feuds replaced by law [Aeschylus, by Grayling] |
1640 | The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one [Xenophanes, by Plato] |
24162 | Planck introduced the idea that energy can be quantized [Baggott] |
21731 | Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott] |
21730 | A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott] |
24163 | Free electrons have clouds of virtual particles, arising from field interaction [Baggott] |
24161 | Thermodynamics sees nature as a continuous flow of energy, as radiation and as substance [Baggott] |
21732 | The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott] |
24160 | Particle measurements don't seem to reflect their reality [Baggott] |
3055 | Xenophanes said the essence of God was spherical and utterly inhuman [Xenophanes, by Diog. Laertius] |
408 | Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair [Xenophanes] |
407 | Mortals believe gods are born, and have voices and clothes just like mortals [Xenophanes] |