"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry ... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress."
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

My first post

In sticking with my initial theme for this blog.

"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."
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J. Robert Oppenheimer

I found some interesting photos using techniques developed by Harold Eugene Edgerton.






Needless to say it would be a bad day to be at home that day. The photos and credits can be found here.

Some of Edgerton's early works can be found here. A couple of his other famous pictures: