Revision history of "Lord Kelvin"

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• cur | prev 2026 NotTheMudGeometer (talk | contribs) . . (2,735 bytes) (+45) . . (IF HE WAS SO CLEVER HOW COME HE GOT THE AGE OF THE ERTH WRONG BY A FACTOR OF A HUNDRED. ANSWER THAT) (current)
• cur | prev 2026 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,690 bytes) (+180) . . (→ put the two clouds and the sentence he never said in adjoining sections, since the joke does not survive being separated. he named the two problems that ended his physics, in order, aged seventy-five, and is quoted as having said there were none)
• cur | prev 1980s an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,510 bytes) (+200) . . (→ somebody has begun attributing to him the line about nothing being left to discover in physics. he did not say it. it is Michelson's sixth place of decimals, and Michelson was quoting a man he would not name)
• cur | prev 1907 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,310 bytes) (+160) . . (→ died at Largs and is buried in the nave, immediately south of Newton. in the same year Boltwood publishes mineral ages past a thousand million, against his twenty to forty, and they were in the rocks the whole time)
• cur | prev 1903 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (2,150 bytes) (+130) . . (→ looked for the N-rays and reported that he could not see them, which was the correct result and the one nobody cites. he is not always the cautionary tale)
• cur | prev 27 April 1900 W. Thomson (talk | contribs) . . (2,020 bytes) (+400) . . (→ told the Royal Institution that the beauty and clearness of the dynamical theory is at present obscured by two clouds. the first is that no experiment finds the Earth moving through the aether. the second is the equipartition of energy, which will not give the right radiation. I do not know what is behind either of them)
• cur | prev 1897 W. Thomson (talk | contribs) . . (1,620 bytes) (+150) . . (→ narrowed it to twenty to forty millions. I am aware the geologists want more and I am aware that wanting is not an argument)
• cur | prev 8 December 1896 W. Thomson (talk | contribs) . . (1,470 bytes) (+110) . . (→ replying to Major Baden-Powell: I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, and I decline to join the society. this will be quoted at me and it will be fair)
• cur | prev 1895 the Mud Geometer (talk | contribs) . . (1,360 bytes) (+50) . . (HE SAYS THE WORLD IS TWENTY MILION YEAR OLD BECAUS IT IS COOLIN DOWN. I HAVE DUG IN IT. IT IS COLD AT THE TOP AND WARM UNDERNETHE AND THAT IS ALL I NO)
• cur | prev 1892 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (1,310 bytes) (+120) . . (→ raised to the peerage as Baron Kelvin of Largs, after the river that runs past the laboratory. the first scientist sent to the Lords, and he goes there having been paid for his patents, which almost nobody else in this encyclopedia can say)
• cur | prev 1873 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (1,190 bytes) (+90) m . . (→ his elder brother James has put the word radian into a Belfast examination paper. the family now has a unit each)
• cur | prev 1866 an editor (talk | contribs) . . (1,100 bytes) (+140) . . (→ the Atlantic cable is working, on his instruments and at his voltages rather than Whitehouse's, and he has been knighted for it. the previous cable was shouted at until it died)
• cur | prev 1862 W. Thomson (talk | contribs) . . (960 bytes) (+380) . . (→ the Earth is a cooling body and the rate of cooling is a clock. twenty to four hundred millions of years, and I incline to the lower part of it. every quantity here is measured and I invite anyone to find the step that is wrong)
• cur | prev 1848 W. Thomson (talk | contribs) . . (580 bytes) (+320) . . (→ an absolute scale of temperature, resting on the theory of heat and not on the behaviour of any one substance, with its zero at about two hundred and seventy-three degrees below the freezing point of water. it is a scale that does not care what the thermometer is made of, which is the whole of the merit)
• cur | prev 1846 W. Thomson (talk | contribs) . . (260 bytes) (+260) . . (created page; appointed to the chair of natural philosophy at Glasgow. I am twenty-two and I intend to hold it a long while)

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