Categories: Comparisons
An example of metaphor in a scientist's writngs:
"As far as Earth's age is concerned, in fact, the discovery of radioactive heat is principally of historic interest: it was simply the first battering ram that ruined the mathematical construction that Kelvin had bitterly defended."
Hubert Krivine
Krivine, H. (2015). The Earth. From myths to knowledge [La Terre, des myths au savoir] (D. Fernbach, Trans.). Verso. (2011)
[Lord Kelvin had proposed an age for the earth much less than is now accepted, on the basis that it was a cooling ball of matter]
Tags: Earth, radioactivity
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