A language problem?

Posted by on Jan 10, 2008 in Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Pic Penn Treaty Museum There’s a great piece in last week’s New Scientist about how the form of (european) language can shackle the thinking you try to express with it. This proved to be a particular problem for physicists working on quantum theory: European languages…perfectly mirror the classical world of Newtonian physics. When we say […]