Recent content by avi

All good stuff here, Steve, until the last bit. The reason why Einstein did not speak to Tesla using mobile telephones, is not because either man had a limited "brain capacity". Lots of people can read music. Why can't everyone compose works like Bach, or Prokofiev, or Jehan Alain? The...

Thanks for that reminder, Steve, well written. What about other ancient cultures, for example Mycenaens? Didn't they have indoor plumbing? Did they construct their abodes using rectangular beams? I have observed some nifty bridges, constructed in ancient times, using stone arches. Looks...

Contemplating stones, and the claim that one needs draft animals, and the idea that one waits for the Greek civilization to examine the solar system, I am inclined to think less of a seesaw, and more of Stonehenge. How did they move those huge stones? How did they lift them? Where did they...

oil for thought: Addressing point by point, let's refer to the actual extant texts. For the new testament, Codex Sinaiticus is useful. For the old testament, pages are missing from that venerable source, so we must wait a couple more years, until the Vatican has scanned this critical early...