Obi-Wan Kenobi “may the Force be with you”

Obi-Wan Kenobi “may the Force be with you”

Obi-Wan Kenobi
“may the Force be with you”
Chinese abacus
Mayan abacus
Yupana Calculator, Inca
Brahmagupta
India
598–668
Muḥammad
ibn Mūsā
al-Khwārizmī
Uzbekistan / Persia
780 – 850
Founder of Algebra
On the Calculation with
Hindu Numerals
translated into Latin as
Algoritmi de numero
Indorum
Aristotle
384 to 322 BCE
Why → How
The Alchymist, in Search
of the Philosophers' Stone
by Joseph Wright of Derby,
1771
1661 Robert Boyle
(gas volume varies
inversely to its pressure)
1787, Antoine Lavoisier
(matter is conserved)
Nicolas Flamel
France
(1330 – 1418)
(died at age 88)
Imaginative portrait.
Abraham the Jew: Levite,
Astronomer & philosopher.
To the Jewish people that is in exile in
France due to the fury of God. Hello in
the name of the God of Israel.
Prophecy
Metal transformation
City of Leon
the substance of the
eternal spirit emerged.
Aristotle
384 to 322 BCE
Why → How
Galileo Galilei
1564 – 1642
Aristotle
Why → How
Galileo
challenge Greek philosophy
Newton
science = how ; religion = why
Sir Isaac Newton
1643 – 1727
Force ~ motion change
Sir Isaac Newton
1643 – 1727
Why bother?
Moving objects
?
1 + 1 = 1.9
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
E = m c2
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
speaking at the Kremlin in 1935
Claiming x3 to x4 wheat crop
Imprisoned and died
Due to Lysenko
Isaak Agol,
Solomon Levit,
Grigorii Levitskii,
Georgii Karpechenko,
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
world's largest collection of
plant seeds
November 1887 (Moscow city)
– January 1943 (Moscow prison)
(of malnutrition)
Georgii Nadson,
Nikolai Vavilov
Many more …
NSF Grant No. DMR-0619458
NSF Grant No. CBET-0960229
Guillaume Amontons,
1663 – 1705
Friction ~ load
Charles-Augustin
de Coulomb
1736 – 1806
David Tabor
(23 October 1913 –
26 November 2005)
Friction ~ contact area
Lamar University, Dec 2009
Drop Friction ~ Inverse of Load
Drop Friction ~ Inverse of contact area
Centrifugal Adhesion Balance CAB
Centrifugal Adhesion Balance, CAB
Waiting!
NSF Grant No. DMR-0619458
NSF Grant No. CBET-0960229
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