I hate that Planck quote. It’s full of “truthiness”. I think it is in fact falsified by the histories of relativity, quantum mechanics, and continental drift/plate tectonics. I’m pretty confident about the latter, trusting Hofstadter’s class lectures more for the former two.
I hate that Planck quote. It’s full of “truthiness”. I think it is in fact falsified by the histories of relativity, quantum mechanics, and continental drift/plate tectonics. I’m pretty confident about the latter, trusting Hofstadter’s class lectures more for the former two.