February 2012
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You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
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Malandragem: You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe,...
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“Beyond the universe there is nothing and within the universe the supernatural...”
– Inscription on the epitaph of George P. Spencer of Lyndon Center, Vermont. Died in 1908 at age 83.
