Blogs about: Ernst Mach

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the limits of the human mind...

carmelosaia wrote 4 months ago: “The goal which it [physical science] has set itself is the simplest and most economical abstr … more →

Tags: Philosophy

Ernst Mach: the problem with Science Education1 comment

ozymandias1 wrote 6 months ago: 1859 marks not only the 150th birthday of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Specie … more →

Tags: Education, Physics, Science, mach, einstein

THE TERRIFYING CRACK AND ECHO

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: Black Rock, Nevada, 1860. In the bleached and cracked playas and buttes of what was once Lake Lah … more →

Tags: Cole Coonce, Infinity Over Zero, Black Rock Nevada, kit carson, Pauite

GAS AND DUST, THE DEVIL AND DARK MATTER (1887-1912)

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: “The inertia of any system is the result of the interaction of that system with the rest of … more →

Tags: Cole Coonce, Infinity Over Zero, al jafr, Black Rock, bonneville, einstein, Mach's Principle of Inertia

SHOT GLASS (Vienna, 1887)

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: Two central Europeans are firing a gun into a bottle, breaking glass and making sparks as the bull … more →

Tags: Cole Coonce, Infinity Over Zero, Speed of sound, Vienna

A VISUALIZING SYMBOL (Vienna, 1912)

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: Ernst Mach insists that acceleration can be defined as only relative to the distant stars… … more →

Tags: Cole Coonce, Infinity Over Zero, General Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein

THE CURATOR OF TECHNOLOGY

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: Washington, DC, October, 1997. The appetizer of nachos arrive, moments after the dispatching of … more →

Tags: Cole Coonce, Infinity Over Zero, Spirit of America, Smithsonian Institute, bell x-1

THE EARTH'S CURVE

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: Newton figured that space and time are absolute. They ain’t. Had he done his calculus at the … more →

Tags: Cole Coonce, Infinity Over Zero, Craig Breedlove, einstein, bonneville salt flats, Art Arfons, newton, Donner Party, Aristotle

THE MAD! ROCKET SCIENTIST

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: As a totem, or a weapon, or a propulsion system — whither from Biblical times through the days of … more →

Tags: Cole Coonce, Infinity Over Zero, age of aquarius, Brent Fanning, Captain America, concept 1, courage of australia, Jimmy Carter, Miss STP

Dinklefwat 56 comments

Jason Adams wrote 1 year ago: User Friendly, another beloved comic strip I subscribe to, poses the interesting question (generaliz … more →

Tags: Discoveries, user-friendly, Comic Strips, Philosophy of Science

THE SOUND OF SPEED

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: The only thing as intimidating as the speed of sound is the sound of speed. One feature incorporat … more →

Tags: Cole Coonce, Infinity Over Zero, Andy Green, Thrust SSC

THE HUMAN PUNCH CARD

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: “Colours, sounds, temperatures, pressures, spaces, times, and so forth, are connected with o … more →

Tags: Cole Coonce, Infinity Over Zero, Mach 1, Spencer Tracy, Thrust SSC, Pauite, truckee, Winnemucca

RUN SIXTY-FIVE

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: They see something and then they hear it. Puffs of smoke off in the distance and then an audible b … more →

Tags: Infinity Over Zero, Andy Green, Mach 1, Thrust SSC, Black Rock Nevada, Land Speed Record

NEGATIVE GRAVITY

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: Ernst Mach was right, Einstein was right…. SSC is fifty feet off of its white line that serve … more →

Tags: Infinity Over Zero, Craig Breedlove, einstein, Mach 1, Richard Noble, Ron Ayers, Land Speed Record, Glen Leasher, Art Arfons

SINGULARITY

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: “Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.” - Hassan i Sabbah This is a paradox worth … more →

Tags: Infinity Over Zero, Andy Green, Craig Breedlove, einstein, Mach 1, Gary Gabelich, Richard Noble, Land Speed Record, Art Arfons

THE VANISHING POINT (1996)

colecoonce wrote 8 months ago: Cuz’n Roy and I are coming back from Black Rock after Breedlove’s 600 mph mishap… … more →

Tags: Cole Coonce, Infinity Over Zero, Chambers Brothers, Craig Breedlove, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, cuz'n roy, time has come today


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