Re:Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered ...
by lkbm on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:37PM
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How about this quote from Lord Kelvin:
> The beauty and clearness of the dynamical theory, which asserts heat and light to be modes of motion, is at present obscured by two clouds. I. The first came into existence with the undulatory theory of light, and was dealt with by Fresnel and Dr. Thomas Young; it involved the question, how could the earth move through an elastic solid, such as essentially is the luminiferous ether? II. The second is the Maxwell–Boltzmann doctrine regarding the partition of energy.[0]
As I understand it, the two clouds were dealt with via special relativity and quantum mechanics.
> The beauty and clearness of the dynamical theory, which asserts heat and light to be modes of motion, is at present obscured by two clouds. I. The first came into existence with the undulatory theory of light, and was dealt with by Fresnel and Dr. Thomas Young; it involved the question, how could the earth move through an elastic solid, such as essentially is the luminiferous ether? II. The second is the Maxwell–Boltzmann doctrine regarding the partition of energy.[0]
As I understand it, the two clouds were dealt with via special relativity and quantum mechanics.
[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=YvoAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA363#v=on...