3 Quotes by Joseph Mazur

  • Author Joseph Mazur
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    Time dilation, inconstancy of mass, and special relativity suggest that motion is indeed illusory.

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  • Author Joseph Mazur
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    After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.

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  • Author Joseph Mazur
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    And our understanding of that motion remains fundamentally paradoxical.

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