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Foreigner's "Blinded by Science", on Head Games (1979)
Blinded by science, I'm on the run / Blinded
by science, where do I belong?
What's in the future, has it just begun / Blinded
by science, I'm on the run
I worry 'bout the world that we live in / I'm worried
by all the confusion
I wonder 'bout the lies I've been reading / I wonder where
this madness is leading
Is this a road going nowhere? / Or is someone leading
us somewhere?
I can't believe we're here for no reason / There must be something
we can believe in
Blinded by science, I'm on the run / I'm not an appliance,
so don't turn me on
What's
in the future, has it just begun / Blinded by science, I'm on the run
What's
in the future, has it just begun / Blinded by science, I'm on the run
I worry
'bout the world that we live in / I'm worried by all the confusion
I wonder 'bout
the lies I've been reading / I wonder where this madness is leading
Is this a
road going nowhere? / Is someone leading us somewhere?
I can't believe we're
here for no reason / There must be something we can believe in
Blinded by science,
I'm on the run / I'm not an appliance, don't turn me on
What's in the future,
has it just begun / Blinded by science, I'm on the run
Arons suggests courses in every discipline should answer questions like...
What do we know (about the physical world)? How do we know...? Why do we accept or believe...? What is the evidence for...?
We will study a number of things that you already 'know', such as how the solar system is organized, not so as to convince you that the earth orbits the sun, but rather to examine the process whereby we have come to that conclusion.
Advice for young reporter Bernstein trying to crack the Watergate case from his anonymous source 'Deep Throat':
Advice for young students trying to understand physics:
"Just follow the energy!"
Scientific theories are not the same as mathematical theorems.
"The measure of the internal angles of a triangle always adds to 180 degrees"
Otto, standing by the tracks, sees the baseball whiz past going 50mph, and notes that the train is moving at 20mph.
According to Galilean relativity, the speed of the baseball inside the cabin (that is, the speed of impact, in this case):
vinside = 50 mph - 20 mph = 30 mph
But Einstein has recently convinced a lot of physicists that, no, vinside = 30.000000000000002 mph
We now understand Galilean relativity as no longer the best theory, but still, a pretty good approximation to Einstein's better theory of 'Special Relativity' as long as we're talking about the realm of speeds much less than the speed of light.
We do not say that "Special Relativity is true", or that "Galilean Relativity is false". Maybe something better than Special Relativity will yet come along! Galilean Relativity has been disproved. But it is still a whole lot closer to what we observe than many other possible theories.
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