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Obi-Wan Kenobi

“may the Force be with you”

Mayan abacus Yupana Calculator, Inca

Chinese abacus

BrahmaguptaIndia

598–668

Uzbekistan / Persia780 – 850

�Founder of Algebra

�On the Calculation with

Hindu Numerals

�translated into Latin as Algoritmi de numero

Indorum

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā

al-Khwārizmī

Aristotle

384 to 322 BCE

Why →→→→ How

The Alchymist, in Search

of the Philosophers' Stone

by Joseph Wright of Derby,

1771

1661 Robert Boyle

(gas volume varies

inversely to its pressure)

1787, Antoine Lavoisier

(matter is conserved)

Nicolas Flamel

France

(1330 – 1418)

(died at age 88)

Imaginative portrait.

Abraham the Jew: Levite, Astronomer & philosopher.

To the Jewish people that is in exile in

France due to the fury of God. Hello in

the name of the God of Israel.

Prophecy

Metal transformation

City of Leon

the substance of the

eternal spirit emerged.

Aristotle

384 to 322 BCE

Why →→→→ How

Galileo Galilei

1564 – 1642

Sir Isaac Newton

1643 – 1727

Aristotle

Why →→→→ How

Galileo

challenge Greek philosophy

Newton

science = how ; religion = why

Sir Isaac Newton

1643 – 1727

Force ~ motion change

Why bother?

Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Moving objects

?1 + 1 = 1.9

E = m c2

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko speaking at the Kremlin in 1935

Claiming x3 to x4 wheat crop

Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilovworld's largest collection of

plant seedsNovember 1887 (Moscow city)

– January 1943 (Moscow prison)(of malnutrition)

Isaak Agol,

Solomon Levit,

Grigorii Levitskii,

Georgii Karpechenko,

Georgii Nadson,

Nikolai Vavilov

Many more …

Imprisoned and died

Due to Lysenko

NSF Grant No. DMR-0619458

NSF Grant No. CBET-0960229

Guillaume Amontons,

1663 – 1705

Friction ~ load

Charles-Augustin

de Coulomb

1736 – 1806

David Tabor

(23 October 1913 –

26 November 2005)

Friction ~ contact area

Lamar University, Dec 2009

Drop Friction ~ Inverse of Load

Drop Friction ~ Inverse of contact area

Centrifugal Adhesion Balance CAB

Centrifugal Adhesion Balance, CAB

Waiting!

NSF Grant No. DMR-0619458

NSF Grant No. CBET-0960229

Thank YOU!!!