Ernest Rutherford Biography
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Date: 2022-12-27
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Dennis
The emotional intelligence of Mary Newton is understated here, the woman who chose to encourage Rutherford could have just as easily pined for his more immediate hand in marriage. Then she married that huge mind, which suggests her tolerance for a big head is also remarkable.
As for stamp collecting, religion is considered worthless by the scientific machine. Yet science has concluded with wild assumptions more fantastic than those of religion, based on what I believe to be the interpretation of the Bernard comment about stamp collecting. The stamp collecting of science is important. Each tidbit of fact established through experiment, observation or even theorizing is like a pixel in a video. Some pixels are sometimes placed in the picture erroneously to later be removed or repositioned. The number of pixels in science is great, but the video is nowhere complete. Rutherford was interested in accurate pictures created using established means, disdainful of thought experiment and imagination as contributors of pixels to the video. Likewise, the assembly of Rutherford's pixels into fantastic beliefs about the origins of the universe are a fanciful theocracy akin to the Roman mythology that assembled a new belief system each time a new city was conquered, the local god being written into the story of the great Pantheon. It is considered a great heresy to question the religious belief of the big bang theory derived from Rutherford's accurate pixel of radioactive decay. The organization of our pixel collection into a supposed ready-to-watch full feature-length video is a modern example of stamp collecting. I feel that Rutherford and Mary would disapprove.
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The emotional intelligence of Mary Newton is understated here, the woman who chose to encourage Rutherford could have just as easily pined for his more immediate hand in marriage. Then she married that huge mind, which suggests her tolerance for a big head is also remarkable.
As for stamp collecting, religion is considered worthless by the scientific machine. Yet science has concluded with wild assumptions more fantastic than those of religion, based on what I believe to be the interpretation of the Bernard comment about stamp collecting. The stamp collecting of science is important. Each tidbit of fact established through experiment, observation or even theorizing is like a pixel in a video. Some pixels are sometimes placed in the picture erroneously to later be removed or repositioned. The number of pixels in science is great, but the video is nowhere complete. Rutherford was interested in accurate pictures created using established means, disdainful of thought experiment and imagination as contributors of pixels to the video. Likewise, the assembly of Rutherford's pixels into fantastic beliefs about the origins of the universe are a fanciful theocracy akin to the Roman mythology that assembled a new belief system each time a new city was conquered, the local god being written into the story of the great Pantheon. It is considered a great heresy to question the religious belief of the big bang theory derived from Rutherford's accurate pixel of radioactive decay. The organization of our pixel collection into a supposed ready-to-watch full feature-length video is a modern example of stamp collecting. I feel that Rutherford and Mary would disapprove.
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David
In very ancient times, the conics, ratio-rates of gearing proportioning were obvious phenomena built into time-timing sync-duration identification in conglomerations of Primes and Cofactors of the distribution Professor Tao identified, that corresponds with Galileo's timing modulation Pendula in the gravitational field and Newton's axial->tangential line-of-sight superposition identification of Infinitesimal Corpuscles, or Fluxions set in the Infinity +/- of Euler's e-Pi-i sync-duration connectivity function, which implies that the pivotal Centre of Logarithmic Superspin Superposition-point Singularity Time Duration Timing interference modulation has a local nucleus of zero difference around which omnidirectional-dimensional 1-0-infinity cause-effect is the pure-math manifestation of Reciproction-recirculation Singularity zero-infinity +/- ONE-INFINITY Eternity-now-> Integration Interval here-now-forever.
JJ Thompson expected to explain phenomena using vortices, and only needed more accurate reasoning such as Bergson posited, but projection-drawing of holographic e-Pi resonances is more than difficult when confronted by Ego based beliefs.
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In very ancient times, the conics, ratio-rates of gearing proportioning were obvious phenomena built into time-timing sync-duration identification in conglomerations of Primes and Cofactors of the distribution Professor Tao identified, that corresponds with Galileo's timing modulation Pendula in the gravitational field and Newton's axial->tangential line-of-sight superposition identification of Infinitesimal Corpuscles, or Fluxions set in the Infinity +/- of Euler's e-Pi-i sync-duration connectivity function, which implies that the pivotal Centre of Logarithmic Superspin Superposition-point Singularity Time Duration Timing interference modulation has a local nucleus of zero difference around which omnidirectional-dimensional 1-0-infinity cause-effect is the pure-math manifestation of Reciproction-recirculation Singularity zero-infinity +/- ONE-INFINITY Eternity-now-> Integration Interval here-now-forever.
JJ Thompson expected to explain phenomena using vortices, and only needed more accurate reasoning such as Bergson posited, but projection-drawing of holographic e-Pi resonances is more than difficult when confronted by Ego based beliefs.
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David
At the Centre of Time Duration Timing is the 1-0 probability density-intensity real-numberness condensation of transverse trancendental sync-duration Timing Now, and holistic-holographic orbital-orbits of QM-TIME Fields Modulation Mechanism. We are standing under temporal superposition, which by First Principles reasoning means we are tuned to the integrated phase-locked coherence-cohesion resonances of looping relative-timing ratio-rates. This concept is pure theory of imagination based in i-reflection containment states, and the wave-particle amplitude and frequency density-intensity aspects of ONE-INFINITY where we occupy the probabilistic state of mind, conscious awareness, sees this all-at-once sync-duration as real-numberness Act-uality.
Nuclei are AM-FM nodes in the medium that is the Observable Message, Logarithmic Time Duration Timing Superspin.
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At the Centre of Time Duration Timing is the 1-0 probability density-intensity real-numberness condensation of transverse trancendental sync-duration Timing Now, and holistic-holographic orbital-orbits of QM-TIME Fields Modulation Mechanism. We are standing under temporal superposition, which by First Principles reasoning means we are tuned to the integrated phase-locked coherence-cohesion resonances of looping relative-timing ratio-rates. This concept is pure theory of imagination based in i-reflection containment states, and the wave-particle amplitude and frequency density-intensity aspects of ONE-INFINITY where we occupy the probabilistic state of mind, conscious awareness, sees this all-at-once sync-duration as real-numberness Act-uality.
Nuclei are AM-FM nodes in the medium that is the Observable Message, Logarithmic Time Duration Timing Superspin.
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Peter
Rutherford was right. All Science has an absolute connection with data. The importance of its collection, preservation, interpretation, etc. The theoreticians skip that part and can say (and believe) anything that pops up in their heads. Including making abstract concepts such as Time 'come to life' and the manipulation of them by Mathematics. This is an attack on the primacy of Science and its extraordinary place as one of mankind's greatest leaps forward. The extant problem for humanity is the waste of intellect pursuing quasi-God-given inspirations over experimentation proving or destroying interesting hypotheses.
Ergo: Maths is a tool, not a Science. Maths can 'do' anything it wants to the lower order values of a finite object: but Science is the pursuit of their essence.
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Rutherford was right. All Science has an absolute connection with data. The importance of its collection, preservation, interpretation, etc. The theoreticians skip that part and can say (and believe) anything that pops up in their heads. Including making abstract concepts such as Time 'come to life' and the manipulation of them by Mathematics. This is an attack on the primacy of Science and its extraordinary place as one of mankind's greatest leaps forward. The extant problem for humanity is the waste of intellect pursuing quasi-God-given inspirations over experimentation proving or destroying interesting hypotheses.
Ergo: Maths is a tool, not a Science. Maths can 'do' anything it wants to the lower order values of a finite object: but Science is the pursuit of their essence.
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Bag
Radon is a plague in Eastern Pennsylvania as it occurs naturally in the soil in some areas. This was discovered by accident when a power company employee set off detectors ENTERING a nuclear facility. That is, a safety protocol designed to detect contamination INSIDE a nuclear plant revealed that the employee had been contaminated at his own home. It was accumulating in the employee's basement by seeping through walls.
Now it is standard practice to have a radon test done as a condition of home sale - an expensive but necessary nuisance.
Thanks for this great series of science history lessons.
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Radon is a plague in Eastern Pennsylvania as it occurs naturally in the soil in some areas. This was discovered by accident when a power company employee set off detectors ENTERING a nuclear facility. That is, a safety protocol designed to detect contamination INSIDE a nuclear plant revealed that the employee had been contaminated at his own home. It was accumulating in the employee's basement by seeping through walls.
Now it is standard practice to have a radon test done as a condition of home sale - an expensive but necessary nuisance.
Thanks for this great series of science history lessons.
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Marc
Manchester University remembers Rutherford to this day: the buildings he worked in are still standing, and his picture graces several other buildings as a reminder that you don't have to be Cambridge to do science. One of his laboratories is so radioactive that to this day that corner of the building is sealed off, making finding your lecture theatre quite difficult. I've heard one academic respond to students complaining about the detour say you should email Professor Rutherford about it.
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Manchester University remembers Rutherford to this day: the buildings he worked in are still standing, and his picture graces several other buildings as a reminder that you don't have to be Cambridge to do science. One of his laboratories is so radioactive that to this day that corner of the building is sealed off, making finding your lecture theatre quite difficult. I've heard one academic respond to students complaining about the detour say you should email Professor Rutherford about it.
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Rick
In the 1980s I taught electronics technology in what is now called Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan. I wanted to bring some of the history of the pioneers into the students awareness. I never did have time to do the research. Your work fills what I had in mind and overflows the pot. Thanks. I am watching the playlist for several hours today as I do the preparation for an unpleasant medical procedure tomorrow. Thanks also for giving me something better to think about.
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In the 1980s I taught electronics technology in what is now called Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan. I wanted to bring some of the history of the pioneers into the students awareness. I never did have time to do the research. Your work fills what I had in mind and overflows the pot. Thanks. I am watching the playlist for several hours today as I do the preparation for an unpleasant medical procedure tomorrow. Thanks also for giving me something better to think about.
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alan
Ty, your videos are amazing, I really enjoy them, making topics crystal clear. I must apologize cause I have a mental block preventing me from learning math, and never been able to earn enough to live, just in the last ten years and that's so I can aford a basement to live in so I don't have any money I lost a chance to take a course at MIT this week cause I don't have the money but thanks to people like you I do have to give up trying to learn so ty I really live you videos
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Ty, your videos are amazing, I really enjoy them, making topics crystal clear. I must apologize cause I have a mental block preventing me from learning math, and never been able to earn enough to live, just in the last ten years and that's so I can aford a basement to live in so I don't have any money I lost a chance to take a course at MIT this week cause I don't have the money but thanks to people like you I do have to give up trying to learn so ty I really live you videos
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Ser
Hi Kathy, being an electrical engineer and qualified as radiation specialist, I do like your video's a lot and do apreciate how you can explain the history behind all the knowledge we currently have in these field. In the past I did work, in Europe, for the AccuRay company based in Columbus OH (radioactivity based, industrial weight measurement and automation of these processes) and have my own electrical company since 2010 in this and other fields
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Hi Kathy, being an electrical engineer and qualified as radiation specialist, I do like your video's a lot and do apreciate how you can explain the history behind all the knowledge we currently have in these field. In the past I did work, in Europe, for the AccuRay company based in Columbus OH (radioactivity based, industrial weight measurement and automation of these processes) and have my own electrical company since 2010 in this and other fields
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Len
Kathy- I love your episodes! Your new title, The Lightning Tamers, reminds me of one of my favorite books, Dealers of Lightning- XEROX PARC and the dawn of the computer age. At some point in the book I believe author Michael Hiltzik writes lightning flew from their fingertips or something similar denoting how ideas flew around the lab. I approve of your new title and look forward to each new episode
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Kathy- I love your episodes! Your new title, The Lightning Tamers, reminds me of one of my favorite books, Dealers of Lightning- XEROX PARC and the dawn of the computer age. At some point in the book I believe author Michael Hiltzik writes lightning flew from their fingertips or something similar denoting how ideas flew around the lab. I approve of your new title and look forward to each new episode
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Joseph
These videos are really incredible. Here we have Rutherford whose circumstances could easily askew him towards a different path. It's frightening to imagine all the discoveries we would have never known without his brilliance. I feel so genuinely happy he had enough perseverance to face all that life threw at him, and of course also extremely thankful to all those who helped him.
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These videos are really incredible. Here we have Rutherford whose circumstances could easily askew him towards a different path. It's frightening to imagine all the discoveries we would have never known without his brilliance. I feel so genuinely happy he had enough perseverance to face all that life threw at him, and of course also extremely thankful to all those who helped him.
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Peter
Ernest Rutherford who fired alpha particles at a piece of thin gold foil and because he recorded radiation 'bouncing off' the foil in different directions he concluded every atom has a nucleus where all of its positive charge and most of its mass is concentrated.
Yet Rutherford never proved the existence of the atom in the gold foil. It was all in his imagination.
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Ernest Rutherford who fired alpha particles at a piece of thin gold foil and because he recorded radiation 'bouncing off' the foil in different directions he concluded every atom has a nucleus where all of its positive charge and most of its mass is concentrated.
Yet Rutherford never proved the existence of the atom in the gold foil. It was all in his imagination.
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Robert
The only physics historian that I used to watch was from the University of Southern California who had 52 half hour lectures put together by Dr. David Goodstein, his wife (also with a PhD, and many others. Both Goodstein and this new discovery of these videos are helping to make my life complete! (Just kidding on the life completeness statement)
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The only physics historian that I used to watch was from the University of Southern California who had 52 half hour lectures put together by Dr. David Goodstein, his wife (also with a PhD, and many others. Both Goodstein and this new discovery of these videos are helping to make my life complete! (Just kidding on the life completeness statement)
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Richard
Rutherford was indeed born in New Zealand on the 30th August 1871: NZ a British Colony in which all New Zealanders were British Citizens. Rutherford paternal line were Scottish and his maternal line English. I sense in your excellent video an attempt to underplay Rutherfords Britishness especially with the New Zealand stamp in constant display.
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Rutherford was indeed born in New Zealand on the 30th August 1871: NZ a British Colony in which all New Zealanders were British Citizens. Rutherford paternal line were Scottish and his maternal line English. I sense in your excellent video an attempt to underplay Rutherfords Britishness especially with the New Zealand stamp in constant display.
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John
As a physics teacher, I can confirm that this is the best resource I've ever had to inspire my students. I was raised on Asimov's guide to the physical sciences and this is every bit as invigorating for me and helps me connect the science discovery pathway and the personalities involved for my students.
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As a physics teacher, I can confirm that this is the best resource I've ever had to inspire my students. I was raised on Asimov's guide to the physical sciences and this is every bit as invigorating for me and helps me connect the science discovery pathway and the personalities involved for my students.
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Lars
The term half life has been in use so long, it will probably not be changed, but according to my personal opinion, it would be smarter to talk about the time to reduce the radiation to one divided by Euler's number, instead of one divided by two. However, this does not change anything about the physics.
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The term half life has been in use so long, it will probably not be changed, but according to my personal opinion, it would be smarter to talk about the time to reduce the radiation to one divided by Euler's number, instead of one divided by two. However, this does not change anything about the physics.
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Sastry
love your explanations but do have request!
please do not use too many subject pronouns bu use the original subject's name itself as far as posible!
with too many 'he' i seem to lose a track of whom he refers to, unlike while reading book.
no ill intended but just a suggestion.
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love your explanations but do have request!
please do not use too many subject pronouns bu use the original subject's name itself as far as posible!
with too many 'he' i seem to lose a track of whom he refers to, unlike while reading book.
no ill intended but just a suggestion.
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Robert
Great biography. Rutherford is one of my two favorite scientists. The other is James Clerk Maxwell. May I say that your programs surpass about 98. 72% of YT offerings, because you bring a quantity and depth of information few others can approach. Nice work.
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Great biography. Rutherford is one of my two favorite scientists. The other is James Clerk Maxwell. May I say that your programs surpass about 98. 72% of YT offerings, because you bring a quantity and depth of information few others can approach. Nice work.
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JohnjKiwi
Lord Rutherford is a New Zealand national hero.
His image is immortalised on New Zealand's one
hundred dollar bank note. Many thanks Kathy for
your biography on one of our greatest New Zealanders.
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Lord Rutherford is a New Zealand national hero.
His image is immortalised on New Zealand's one
hundred dollar bank note. Many thanks Kathy for
your biography on one of our greatest New Zealanders.
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Ntate
Always loved the stories around physics discoveries and physicists eccentricities, not so much the physics itself, no wonder I dropped out second year.
Too broke to donate so there's my like and comment.
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Always loved the stories around physics discoveries and physicists eccentricities, not so much the physics itself, no wonder I dropped out second year.
Too broke to donate so there's my like and comment.
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