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Relevant Feynman take: > "Suppose that we ask: “Are the physical laws symmetrical under a change of scale?” . . . Another example: we see in the newspaper, eve
by photochemsyn 3y ago
Relevant Feynman take:
> "Suppose that we ask: “Are the physical laws symmetrical under a change of scale?” . . . Another example: we see in the newspaper, every once in a while pictures of a great cathedral made with little matchsticks—a tremendous work of art by some retired fellow who keeps gluing matchsticks together. . . The fact that the laws of physics are not unchanged under a change of scale was discovered by Galileo . . . [who] was so impressed with this discovery that he considered it to be as important as the discovery of the laws of motion, because he published them both in the same volume, called “On Two New Sciences.”"
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