Science was not like this when I was young. Today every important new development in science causes the ground to shift, making ordinary people want to hold on to something solid, if there is any such thing left. Meanwhile, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have announced the results of new experiments demonstrating that it is indeed possible for an atom to be in two different places at the same time. Please define time without speaking of the measure of it by man.
Time is the distance between the beginning of a state and the end of it.
What we call 'bad luck'. . . Wind is merely air in motion, and air is a mixture of gases whose particles are so small that they cannot be seen by the unaided eye. With a confidence and a clarity that may transcend the confining thrall of strict accuracy, Vos Savant considers the world as it can be apprehended by our limited ken. Her aim is to establish tenuous beachheads of certainty on the formidable Tarawa of the unknown. She is not alone.