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Show I i ; - .. i If'- I '' . . - - : i' ' . ' 1 i ' ' ', ' v. I , ' ' It " ' Poor man's habit As any dinger-addict will testify, tes-tify, the pin-ball machines in the Union basement cannot only rob one's lunch or gas money, but take the shirt off a man's back. Discredited models useful in physics' I "Discredited models for physical laws have been fruitful in totally lixpected ways-not only do they teach us humility about the iimate explanations which physics is powerless to offer, but they uve mathematical residues which are useful later," said Dr. B. Gale tick, in his lecture, "Models in Physics," delivered in the winter quarter tars Lecture. I Dr. Dick referred to past models as skeletons in the closet of physics, ( skeletons of the heavily bejeweled remains of saints. He said the Eithematical aspects which have endured from past models such as the , P-.iemaic System and Newton's "Principium" are evidence that afcmatics is the language of nature. I Explanations used to understand phenomena almost always come M in the form of models, which Dr. Dick termed arguments by .dogy. He added that students are often exasperated by explanations 'ocli boil down to "as if." Dr. Dick is a professor in the Department of Physics. He received his U. from Cornell University in 1958. |