Someone in town seems to dislike physics...

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Today some nut poured ink over the physics section in the City Library here in Eskilstuna, and destroyed around 30 books in the process. I can only guess that this someone dislikes the subject :confused:

Pretty pointless thing to do, if you ask me. People have attacked the written word before, by for instance throwing books in bonfires, but that sort of carry-on has a major flaw: Facts will not go away even if you choose to disregard them. Nor will natural laws...

/Claes

[Lily Adams]

WHAT?!?!?!?!! :eek:

NOT. COOL.


And you're absolutely right!

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-Aldous Huxley

[barbara0207]

What a shame! As you say, very pointless - and childish, too. Perhaps some professor gave them a bad mark - or someone got frustrated because they couldn't understand the subject.

Over the years, I have noticed with my students that their frustration threshold has become lower. "If I can't have it, others shan't have it, either", they seem to say. Or they give up earlier than students a decade or so ago. I'm not sure why that is but it seems to be a common phenomenon.

[AdoreroDio]

*sad face* that's terrible! I love Physics too....

[Virgil]

What a jerk. Rebellious teenagers are trouble, especially boys. I doubt he's trying to ban books and may have randomly picked the physics section. His act is along the same impulse to spray paint graffiti on people's property.

[SleepyWitch]

who says it was a kid? is there any evidence of that Claes?
I mean, would you find the kind of lazy or rebellious teenager you guys mentioned inside a library? :eek: .. .yeah, well, in Sweden you probably would :p
maybe it was just some nutter man? there are lots of them in public buildings... you know the kind who don't really have anything to do but pretend they were really important and spend all day in libraries or univs with what used to be their Sunday best on?

[ClaesGefvenberg]

And you're absolutely right!

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."-Aldous HuxleyHuxley? Aha, thank's. That was a new one to me :thumbs_up


who says it was a kid? is there any evidence of that Claes?No, none at all (even though I find it likley too). In spite of the fact that our library is jammed with people most of the time, nobody saw it happen.


maybe it was just some nutter man? there are lots of them in public buildings... Yes, regardless of age I would deem anyone doing things like that to be a nutter.

At least I saved one of the books in that section: It's sitting on my desk right now. :D

/Claes

[dramasnot6]

That is horrible, knowledge is such a beautiful,precious thing. It pains me to think anyone could so recklessly destroy something as wonderful as a book, one of the oldest forms of sharing knowledge.
Very appropriate quote,Lily.

[mercy_mankind]

who says it was a kid?
sometime physics leads students to commit a suicide , as i know a girl burnt herself because of the marks of physics.
so it is not strange from some of them, but it is too bad.

[AuntShecky]

Perhaps the Chemistry Department could help you out?
Maybe they could concoct some ink remover in the lab?
No, I kid, I kid. I sympathize. ( In any event, my joke would have to take a quantum leap in order to be funny!)

[Lote-Tree]

Today some nut poured ink over the physics section in the City Library here in Eskilstuna, and destroyed around 30 books in the process. I can only guess that this someone dislikes the subject :confused:

Pretty pointless thing to do, if you ask me. People have attacked the written word before, by for instance throwing books in bonfires, but that sort of carry-on has a major flaw: Facts will not go away even if you choose to disregard them. Nor will natural laws...

/Claes

It was me :D

Physics Robs humanity of Mystery!

[Remarkable]

This is very shocking but the thing is that some people suffer from sience.With this I mean that sometimes at school a person that is a kind of a genius at maths or physics is regarded as a more able person than someone that is practically a future writer.

I don't think it was an attempt to censure knowledge,I find it a mere desperate act of a desperate person.It is,of course,unacceptabe,what pains me more is to see books thrown in the street,but don't you think it is time to lower the pressure on students?It could become a trauma if one has exeptionally bad marks in siences.

[Petrarch's Love]

Physics Robs humanity of Mystery!

You clearly haven't spent enough time around physicists discussing Quantum mechanics. :p

As to Claes' original post, that's awful! I hope your library is able to replace the lost books.

[Prometheus]

Silly, silly person. So not cool! :/

[Lote-Tree]

You clearly haven't spent enough time around physicists discussing Quantum mechanics. :p


I have. Here is how they rob it of Mystery using an equation:

F=ma

E=MC2

Here mystery gone.

[Taliesin]

Lote, what you say really sounds very ignorant.

First, neither of those equations are Quantum Mechanics.

Second, there are A LOT of mysteries in physics, i.e the search for grand unified theory, why gravitational mass and inertial mass are identical although unconnected, etc.


And third,

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_difference.png

[SleepyWitch]

eh, Tal, what are gravitational mass an intertial mass?

[Lote-Tree]

Lote, what you say really sounds very ignorant.

First, neither of those equations are Quantum Mechanics.


That was not the point I was making ;-)

Once you encapsulate reality in a formula...the mystery is gone.

What is left is mere calculations.