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Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.
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It is experience that is the ultimate teacher. That is why wise people travel constantly and test themselves against the flux of circumstance.
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Higgs confirms Gutting
Start with the composite photo above — left to right, the galaxy Messier 82 (M82) taken by the Hubble Space Telescope; the tip of a pine branch in Upstate NY taken by me; and a putative Higgs event from the Large Hadron Collider modelled by the CMS collaboration at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Now ask yourself this: Could you explain to anyone else what is happening in each of these?… Yeah, I couldn’t either, though it wouldn’t stop me from trying! But really explain? No, not at the galactic or human or sub-nuclear scales. And yet as a species we know an astonishing amount about all three. How can that be? The answer is that there are two kinds of people involved, and we have learned to trust them both — scientists who dream up experiments, create measuring devices, and carefully analyze the results; and philosophers who help the first think about what it means to know something with confidence. More about one member of the second group later.