Room 8A Knowledge or Certainty


Earlier in the 1800s Johann Friedrich Blumenbach had put together a collection of skulls…there is no suggestion that this [was a racial or racist motivated] division…”

But Gauss pushed on to ask what the scatter of the error tells us. He devised the Guassian curve [this is still used by scientists, engineers, mathematicians students of or practitioners of statistics, and others – it is in the indispensable Eton’s tables.] in which the scatter is summarized by the deviation, or spread, of the curve. And from this came a far reaching idea: the scatter marks an area of uncertainty. We are not sure that the true position is the center. All we can say is that it lies in the area of uncertainty…

The riddles of the sub atomic articles – are mental riddles.

Max Born [used to say]: ‘ I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy.’

…meant that the new ideas in physics amount to a different view of reality.

The information that the electron carries is limited by it’s totality.

The Principle of Uncertainty – The Principle of Tolerance.

Earlier in the 1800s Johann Friedrich Blumenbach had put together a collection of skulls…there is no suggestion that this [was a racial or racist motivated] division…”