physics
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a: physics ~
b: life
What:
"Quantum physics is like life. Not nasty, brutish and short, but rather unpredictable, occasionally interesting, and often depressing."
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Writer: Tom Siegfried
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Date: Oct 26 2015 11:13 AM
# 9144 Critique Analogy
a: physics ~
b: eating from the tree of knowledge
What:
"Learning physics is like eating from the tree of knowledge: you learn how to distinguish right and wrong, as dictated by reality."
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Oct 26 2015 11:14 AM
# 9143 Critique Analogy
a: physics ~
b: Allegory of the Cave
a: physics ~
b: Lego bricks
What:
"physics is like Lego bricks. With just a few basic blocks, you can build complicated models."
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Writer: Rhett Allain
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Date: Oct 26 2015 11:10 AM
# 9141 Critique Analogy
a: Geophysics ~
b: candy store
What: This is an interview with Mike Batzle. He is a Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. He liken the intellectual environment around geophysics as being in a candy store. In that, there is so much interesting stuff to study it's difficult to say no to many of the projects that he can work on.
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Writer: Mike Batzle
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Date: Apr 13 2013 4:18 PM
# 2703 Critique Analogy
Looking Way Out.......but In.....
a: Geophysics ~
b: astronomy
What: "Geophysics is like astronomy in some respects: both face the challenge of remote sensing. Although the interior of the Earth is only a few thousand kilometers beneath our feet, as compared to the many trillions of kilometers separating us from even the nearest stars, the Earth's core can not be directly sampled in any way, and the difficulty is to extract information in some indirect fashion."
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Apr 13 2013 4:24 PM
# 2704 Critique Analogy
Put Your Nose To The Ground And Sniff Away
a: Geophysics ~
b: looking for truffles
What: "I called it Snuffler, because geophysics is like a wild boar snuffling for truffles." Snuffler is the name of open source software for do it yourself archeology.
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Writer: David Staveley
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Date: Apr 13 2013 4:27 PM
# 2705 Critique Analogy
Some Dirty Work....
a: Geophysics ~
b: most TV archaeology programmes
What: "Geophysics is like most TV archaeology programmes, the majority of the work is behind the scenes and unglamorous but important if any work is to be done. So how does one go about conducting a geophysical survey on an archaeological site?"
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Writer: RidgewayWilliams
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Date: Apr 13 2013 4:32 PM
# 2706 Critique Analogy
Many Into One.....
a: Geophysics ~
b: a five-star hotel
What: "Geophysics is like a five-star hotel - "all inclusive". It suggests the knowledge of geology, physics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry and of course foreign languages. It makes you become as different as it's possible."
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Writer: Not Stated
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Apr 13 2013 4:34 PM
# 2707 Critique Analogy
METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.