Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the UnknownMacmillan, 1 апр. 2010 г. - Всего страниц: 336 Bestselling author Michael Shermer delves into the unknown, from heretical ideas about the boundaries of the universe to Star Trek's lessons about chance and time |
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... answer most people give upon first glance is 16 ( 4 x 4 ) . Upon fur- ther reflection , most observers note that the entire figure is a square , upping the answer to 17. But wait ! There's more . Note the 2 x 2 squares . Figure 1.1 ...
... answer to a simple question for even such a mundane pattern as this ranged from 16 to 30. Compared to the complexities of the real world , this is about as straightforward as it gets , and still the correct answer is not immediately ...
... answer , as you will frustratingly realize within a few seconds , is that it depends on what constitutes a " dot . " In the figure itself there are no black dots . There are only white dots on a highly contrasting background Figure 1.3 ...
... answers to this solipsistic challenge - consistency , coherence , and corre- spondence being just three devised by philosophers and epistemologists— but for my money there is no more effective Reliable xxii // Introduction.
... answer : cluster = or cause . It all depends . Additional studies must be conducted . Are there other towns and ... answers to such questions , usually in the negative , often come long after juries have granted plaintiffs large awards ...
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