[MD] Boscovich

[Ian Glendinning]

Hi Michael,
Noticed Boscovich cited as important by Charles Simonyi here on The
Edge 2012 Question ...
http://www.edge.org/responses/what-is-your-favorite-deep-elegant-or-beautiful-explanation
Ian

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Michael R. Brown <mrb at fuguewriter.com> wrote:
> Nietzsche foresaw all kinds of things - including, in the early 1880s, a
> change in physics coming. He wrote that materialism would be supplanted and
> a new energy-physics would arise that did away with "the reduction to terms
> of maximal stupidity" he saw in Newtonian inertial materialism. He got a lot
> of it from Boscovich's pioneering field theory - a most interesting thinker
> everyone should check out:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru%C4%91er_Bo%C5%A1kovi%C4%87 , whom Tesla
> touted as a predecessor of Einstein.
>
> Interesting note:
> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/02/10/nietzsche-long-live-physics/
>
>
> MRB
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