Galileo's Pendulum

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” — Simone Weil If I can be so bold, here’s my (admittedly far less poetic) version: “False science in fiction is romantic and heroic; false science in life is tedious, contradictory,…