Broom me up Scotty
a lesson in cultural history AND in colombs law
Brooms seem to belong to a hazy past and seem MORE associated with culture than with hard ball natural science. The answer is it has relation to both fields. The hazy humanities and knowledge about capacitors in electronics.
The key here is comets, comets have hair, so do witches. And the witch is by all counts associated to the comet, being roundaboutly related to bad luck and black cats and what have you. Seems a bit confusing at first glance, but wait theres more. So is a comet a capacitor ?
The lead word here is steering its course.
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But how about that culture bit then???
Yet another aha moment for paleontologists as they found fotprints by a dino that was too old. This finding illustrates how we are to assess brooms as sweepers of the old paradigm in physics. We need as Bateson called for to have our eyes peeled on having our eyes less peeled on the object of study (cf. loose and strict interpretation, STEPS, Gregory Bateson in an early essay). We should I should think reconsider if science precedes the dino or if the empirical dino precede the scientyst (?)
What am I trying to say? At fist to understand why brooms matter as eye opening devices, we must first consider what the dino recently did, or what he or she did do. This shadow of a dino was able we may surmise to outpace the competition? One foot at the time it outsmarted an entire field of forebears it seems. Or did it? The misinterpretation by science as visible in this news item recently proves MORE about science I thunk than about dinos, and is an object lesson indeed one we need if we are to study brooms and their supposed capcitance (I previously claimed we may think of a broom as if it were a capacitor, a device we know from among electric components.
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