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That Melvyn Bragg is such a wag
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He just said that if Newton had not discovered the law of gravity then
the moon would not be where it is. Logic is *not* his strong point.
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He also forgot to mention the Newton stole most of his ideas from Robert
Hook.
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And he has now just run quantum mechanincs and relativity together as
being the same thing rather than being (as yet) opposing ways of
describing the world.
I wonder if he can be trusted for his views on art and literature?
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Yersh. Except Start the Week is presented by Andrew Marr nowadays.
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I don't think he's talking about "Start the Week". Bragg presented "Books
that changed the world" last night on ITV, including "Principia
Mathematica".
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Marr is a great political journalist (I used to love his writing in
the Independent), but he's not a polymath like Bragg.
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If you haven't read it then add Marr's "My Trade" to your reading list.
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Obviously knew a better class of wine bar to entertain his publisher.
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An entertaining history of political journalism full of interesting and/or
funny anecdotes.
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Well, there's clever
Unified field theory, here we come
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Just careless phrasing. What he was talking about was the coincidence
between where the moon is and where Newton's theory predicts it to
be. If your theory is wrong you will not find the moon where you
expect it to be.
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