acoustics, Hertz and freqs and light waves etc etc etc and by studying Pythagoras, its easy to see that the ancient Greeks pretty much thought of all this stuff before and understood UHF,VHF,ULF. what do you think?
2007-06-27 08:05:12 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
My 10th grade physics teacher told us of how Pythagoras and his friends/colleagues would have "orgies" after discovering a new theory or principle in science or mathematics. The exact phrase he used was "month-long orgies of sex and feasting." If this is true, I think Pythagoras was pretty great.
2007-06-27 08:09:00 · answer #1 · answered by C-Wryte 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't know anything about radio - only sound vibration. They studied the mathematics of stringed instruments, for example. Their greatest contributions were in pure mathematics, though, like the Pythagorean theorem. They discovered irrational numbers too, but kept it a secret. They thought it would send the wrong message to the ignorant masses about the perfection of numbers. That is, it was an "inconvenient truth".
2007-06-27 23:30:01 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋