August 22, 2022

Thought for Today

"I  am  standing on the threshold about to enter a room. It is a complicated business. In the first place I must shove against  an atmosphere pressing with a force of  fourteen pounds  on  every square inch of my body. I must make sure of landing on a plank traveling at twenty miles a second round the sun - a fraction of a second too early or too late, the plank would be miles away.  I must do this whilst hanging from a round planet, head outward into space, and with a wind of aether blowing at no one knows how many miles a second through every interstice of my body."

Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)

British astrophysicist in

The Nature of the 

Physical World (1928), Ch. 15