From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 11:37:08 MDT
[Blunderov]
<quote from Amazon book review>
The Wu Li Master dances with his student. The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. The Wu Li Master always begins at the center, the heart of the matter.... This book deals not with knowledge, which is always past tense anyway, but with imagination, which is physics come alive, which is Wu Li.... Most people believe that physicists are explaining the world. Some physicists even believe that, but the Wu Li Masters know that they are only dancing with it. The "new physics" of Zukav's 1979 book comprises quantum theory, particle physics, and relativity.
<end quote>
[rhinoceros]
To tell the truth, I was not totally enthralled with this approach at first. I thought: "Well... can they solve problems in this way?" But then I saw the following:
A dance to the music of spacetime
David Adam, September 1, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1033121,00.html
With lateral thinking worthy of the great man himself, British scientists have hit upon a new way of explaining the intricacies of Einstein's theory of relativity: dancing.
The Institute of Physics has asked a contemporary dance company to produce a new work marking the centenary of the 1905 publication of Einstein's most famous and important ideas. The show will be premiered at Sadler's Wells theatre in May 2005, and if London audiences are wowed, a national tour is planned.
"Dance is an expressive medium," said Jerry Cowhig of the Institute of Physics. "It will be ideal for abstract concepts like the theories of Einstein on everything from tiny atoms to the dynamics of the whole cosmos.
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