Episode #361

News Items

Who's That Noisy

  • Answer to last week:

Science or Fiction

  • Item #1 Fiction

    Christian Huygens was the first to postulate, in 1678, the particle theory of light.

  • Item #2 Science

    In 1695 he wrote a book expounding on his belief in extraterrestrial life.

  • Item #3 Science

    He invented and patented the pendulum clock in 1657.

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.’ - Bertrand Russell’s ‘The ABC of Relativity’ (4th revised edition).