Episode #361
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week:
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
Christian Huygens was the first to postulate, in 1678, the particle theory of light.
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Item #2
Science
In 1695 he wrote a book expounding on his belief in extraterrestrial life.
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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).