http://jrobertking.com/2009/11/the-terror-of-scale/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:18:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://jrobertking.com/2009/11/the-terror-of-scale/comment-page-1/#comment-660 Anton Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:55:37 +0000 http://jrobertking.com/?p=214#comment-660 "The ancients believed there were the heavens (the atmosphere), the earth (the crust), and hell (the magma)":though not quite in terms of places they could observe or drill/fly to. One might with the same accuracy state that alchemists' elements of earth, water, air and fire displayed a profound understanding of nature, by their corresponding with the modern states of matter(solid, liquid, gas, plasma). “The ancients believed there were the heavens (the atmosphere), the earth (the crust), and hell (the magma)”:though not quite in terms of places they could observe or drill/fly to. One might with the same accuracy state that alchemists’ elements of earth, water, air and fire displayed a profound understanding of nature, by their corresponding with the modern states of matter(solid, liquid, gas, plasma).

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