Me and My Breakfast Cereal

Frank Close

  • A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert Laughlin
    Basic Books, 254 pp, £15.50, September 2005, ISBN 0 04 650382 X

‘There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now,’ William Thomson, Lord Kelvin asserted at the British Association meeting in 1900. ‘All that remains is more and more precise measurement.’ Not to be outdone, the American scientist Albert Michelson said: ‘The grand underlying principles have been firmly established; further truths of physics are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals.’

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Vol. 28 No. 3 · 9 February 2006 » Frank Close » Me and My Breakfast Cereal (print version)
Pages 28-29 | 2646 words