At the end of my Elementary Modern Physics (i.e. how we got from Newton to Einstein) class in college, the professor asked each of us what we learned that semester. I said, "Nobody knows anything." He didn't appreciate that. Didn't quite go so far as to say that we know everything, though.
Even though they know the mechanisms (or think they do) of how it happens, they still don't really know why it happens at those times, in those places. The magic isn't in the how, anyway, nor even in the why. It's in the way somethin' like this makes us feel. "They" can go to poopsville.
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May I quote you if I relink this on my LJ?
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Nice to see a nod to him in the article. Nice link. Thanks!
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That'd explain the glow to ME, anyway...
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Does anybody actually say that? 0.o
-Ramshackle Clankbuster
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-A female leg
-A distended nipple
-The profile of Abraham Lincoln
I feel special...
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Now I'm having flashbacks to Gremlins 2.
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I have no soul.
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And there's a kind of magic in the way all that wacky science works, anyway. ;)
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Even though they know the mechanisms (or think they do) of how it happens, they still don't really know why it happens at those times, in those places. The magic isn't in the how, anyway, nor even in the why. It's in the way somethin' like this makes us feel. "They" can go to poopsville.