Timeline for In what ways is physical intuition about mathematical objects non-rigorous?
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| Jun 14, 2010 at 7:07 | comment | added | Tim van Beek | I meant cinema. My point is that you can use science to build gadgets that work, without fully understanding why. Feynman once wrote that, although $E=mc^2$ explains why nuclear bombs work, without this formula the Manhatten project would still have succeeded in building a nuclear bomb: People would still have figured out how to do it, but noone would have understood where all the energy comes from. | |
| Jun 12, 2010 at 19:49 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | Could you explain what you mean by "light theater"? Do you mean the electromagnetic spectrum? | |
| Jun 12, 2010 at 17:26 | history | answered | Tim van Beek | CC BY-SA 2.5 |