Category: Absurdity
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Second Verse, Same As the First, A Little Bit Louder and a Little Bit Worse
Today we find out if Harold Camping, 2011 IgNobel Laureate in Mathematics, is right: he has predicted the Rapture will happen today. As a scientist, I applaud him for making testable predictions: that’s part of what science is about, after all. The entire world tests his hypotheses, and falsified his first numerical prediction, which stated the…
Galileo's Pendulum 