Mathematical Journeys into Fictional Worlds

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  • Опубликовано: 20 дек 2024

Комментарии • 21

  • @anthonyhastings5961
    @anthonyhastings5961 3 года назад +1

    Physics is great and so are physical constants but as Sir Terry Pratchett keeps pointing out in his magic/science books. Narratavium is the essential element. In books, magic is involved so physics takes a back seat.
    I love the pace and enthusiasm of your lectures. If I were 35 years younger I would be working hard at different A Levels than I did and apply to Gresham College

  • @landonoffmars9598
    @landonoffmars9598 3 года назад +3

    This is an excellent lecture. I only wish it was longer. :) Thank you.

  • @fburton8
    @fburton8 3 года назад +3

    Re falling... "You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes." - J.B.S. Haldane

  • @SirAntoniousBlock
    @SirAntoniousBlock 3 года назад +9

    I liked the bit about Angels having 4ft wide chests to support their wings, puts new meaning into the term "muscular Christianity". 👍

  • @thomasciarlariello3228
    @thomasciarlariello3228 Год назад +1

    You forgot to mention "Cosmic Casanova" by Arthur C. Clarke of 1957 about Princess Leia Lau since gigantic creatures of fossil record could only exist inside a pressurized off world colony station or aboard a spacecraft.
    Read "Science of Science Fiction" by Peter Nicholls where they quote Isaac Asimov.

  • @ExistentialistDasein
    @ExistentialistDasein 3 года назад +3

    Thank you for the lecture!

  • @CandidDate
    @CandidDate 3 года назад

    I'm reminded of the quote above the entrance to the Pythagorean Order. "No one ignorant of geometry shall enter."

  • @logann-mackenziefroste563
    @logann-mackenziefroste563 3 года назад +2

    Awesome video!

  • @thomasciarlariello3228
    @thomasciarlariello3228 Год назад

    For higher dimensions see "Aperiodic Quasicrystals of Modulated Phase".

  • @serrat-d9u
    @serrat-d9u 3 года назад +3

    Thank you!!!

  • @devsuniversity
    @devsuniversity 3 года назад

    Nice one! Cheers!

  • @peterdollins3610
    @peterdollins3610 Год назад

    You steal from my Dad's comrade, Professor Haldane's 'On Being the Right Size'.you naughty lady.

  • @ericsarnoski6278
    @ericsarnoski6278 3 года назад +1

    1966 movie Fantastic Voyage....... They shrunk humans and a submatine small enough to be injected through a hypodermic needle into another normal sized human body to explore it's internal system.

  • @anthonyhastings5961
    @anthonyhastings5961 3 года назад +1

    Penguins of madagascar movie
    We’re rich boys, what do you want
    Can we have a gold airbus a380…solid gold…but what about the laws of physics…we’re rich…the laws of physics don’t apply to us

  • @sababatamanna2117
    @sababatamanna2117 3 года назад

    Fascinating!

  • @paulwary
    @paulwary 3 года назад +1

    Journey's ??

    • @bazsnell3178
      @bazsnell3178 3 года назад

      What's your point here?
      Journeys is the plural of journey.

    • @paulwary
      @paulwary 3 года назад +1

      Baz Snell They had an apostrophe in Journeys, but they have fixed it now.

  • @moodist1er
    @moodist1er 3 года назад

    I wish there would have been something about the maths and numerology shared by the world's religions in here.

  • @rflameng
    @rflameng 9 месяцев назад

    Actually, Voltaire is using French feet, not English feet... 5 French feet would be about 5.5 English feet, which wouldn't be abnormal even now. This, by the way, is also why the idea that Napoleon was short is false, but of so useful for caricaturists.

  • @gpcrawford8353
    @gpcrawford8353 3 года назад +1

    Shades of another professor of geometry albeit descriptive Marcel Grossman.