Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Strangest Man', 'The Will to Believe' and 'The Decline of the West'

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5 ideas

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

6570	Imagine millions made happy on condition that one person suffers endless lonely torture [James]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

20948

Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / d. Gravity

21236

Instead of gravitational force, we now have a pervasive gravitational field [Farmelo]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / d. Quantum mechanics

21235

The Schrödinger waves are just the maths of transforming energy values to positions [Farmelo]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / c. Particle properties

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Experiments show that fundamental particles of one type are identical [Farmelo]