Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in popular science writing
"Specifically, Boltzmann and Maxwell pictured a volume of gas as an enormous number of tiny, hard masses speeding about and colliding with each other in mostly empty space. These atoms [sic] pleaded allegiance to the Newtonian laws of mechanics: they had velocities and directions, carried momentum and kinetic energy, bounced off one another in predictable ways, and so on."
David Lindley
Lindley, D. (2020). The Dream Universe. How fundamental physics lost its way. Doubleday.
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Tags: kinetic theory, mechanics
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