By Frans W. Saris
Why do people interact in clinical learn? For a few, it’s easily a occupation. Others are interested in technology for its power monetary rewards. And nonetheless others do it out of competitiveness—to be the 1st of their box. yet in Darwin Meets Einstein Frans W. Saris argues that during our postmodern instances we have now misplaced the that means of science—that technology isn't approximately pageant, nor approximately making a living, nor in regards to the pleasure of discovery. technology is for survival—the survival of people, the survival of life.
In this obtainable selection of essays and columns, Saris brings jointly in dialog a couple of nice minds—Charles Darwin, Baruch Spinoza, Niko Tinbergen, Francis Bacon, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Franz Kafka, and Albert Einstein—to solution the query: why technology? With choices like “Diary of a Physicist,” “The medical Life,” “The mom of All Knowledge,” and “Science in the course of the having a look Glass of Literature,” Darwin Meets Einstein will entertain its readers and eventually inspire them to reassess the meaning—and the purpose—of science.
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7. 8. 9. 10. ) has decided to decrease the use of fossil fuel considerably in the coming fifteen years. To that end a hundred million Deutschmark per year have been put aside for research on and the development of solar cells. Wind and solar energy can very well be put to use in combination with our electricity network, for ‘peak shaving’. This should play a role in the decision to build new power plants, as a study at Utrecht University has shown. Already now there are products, based on solar cells, in which Dutch companies are specialized and have a large advantage over the international competition.
Near the apparatus I find the measurements of Saturday night. The neutron signal from all three detectors nicely rises with the deuterium current. Above the graph it says in capital letters: ‘CONTROLLED COLD FUSION’. I put these measurements on the copy machine, put them into my briefcase and go to the office of FOM in Utrecht. I have agreed to replace our deputy director in a meeting on personnel affairs. He is taking some rest after a jazz weekend in Schagen. The atmosphere during the meeting at FOM is very good.
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