[original german version] With each heavy storm of rain Change comes o’er thy valley fair; Once, alas! But not again Can the same stream hold thee e’er. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Constancy in Change)[1] In physics – after all that is the science where, in contrast to the humanities, everything has a set place – […]
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Remembering Ulrich Beck
[German version] Somehow, we had lost sight of each other. For 12 years, the theories and ideas of Ulrich Beck had become a kind of significant other for me. Ulrich had even been the reason, I abandoned my chemistry studies in 1997 and changed to sociology (oddly enough, from one Professor Beck to the other). […]
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Theodore Gray: The Elements
[Original German Blog-Post] Empedokles postulated in the 5th century B.C. that the world should consist of a finite number of different elements. His philosophy of The Four Elements became the base of occidental science for the next 2000 years. Not until the 17th century, the idea of various compounds of fire, water, air and earth […]