Top 25 Felix Alba-Juez Quotes
#1. It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.
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#2. It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!
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#3. The objective and merit of Einstein's theory is to identify those physical magnitudes which are absolute, i.e. common for all Inertial Frames, distinguishing them from those which are a mere perspective, only shared by those observers in repose within a given Inertial Frame.
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#4. If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?
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#5. Both space and time are metrically amorphous, i.e. they do not have - despite how strongly we believe so - an inherent metric which would allow us to measure them without any definitions. In this sense, thus, neither space nor time is absolute.
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#6. To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.
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#7. Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
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#9. When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic particles touch!
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#10. Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.
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#11. The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.
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#12. The notion of Local Inertial Frame is crucial to understanding Nature and, in particular, General Relativity. Notwithstanding, very few popular science books (not even textbooks) emphasize enough its fundamental character.
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#13. Such is how Science makes progress: not destroying the past, but learning from it, and building on it.
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#14. Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.
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#15. The past and the future are not a collection of instants shared by all space, but a collection of events that correspond to a possible relation of causal order with the present event.
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#16. One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though always with the maximum possible comprehension suited to the purpose.
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#17. The present is not an instant shared by all space, but an event, i.e. an instant at a place in space.
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#18. A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our conventions to discover it.
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#19. There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves.
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#20. Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!
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#21. Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.
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#22. Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
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#23. So strong was the preconception of absolute space and time in the scientific mentality of those days, that Lorentz did not realize the grand transcendence of what he had discovered, and contented himself with remodeling the edifice of Physics
instead of rebuilding it with a new foundation.
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#24. After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:
... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.
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#25. The existence of both (electron and pebble) depends upon the context created by our thoughts, our language, our theories, and our interaction (experimentation) with our external world.
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