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The Chink in New Year’s Resolutions
There was a day that preceded Galileo’s famous shout of ‘Eureka’. Then, there was that infamous day on which, while meditating in course of taking of a bath, no less, he burst out, ‘Eureka’ .
There was a day that preceded Einstein’s completion of the proof of E=mc². Then, there was the day the proof was completed, and the infamous day. on which his peers agreed the proof was true, the result novel and brilliant.
There was a day that preceded Newton’s decision to loiter beneath an apple tree. Then, there was the day that the loitering produced richness of insight into mathematics and mechanics of the law of gravity.
Regardless of events that transpired, each of enumerated days count as only one day;
Yet, as is evident from differences in events, enumerated days do not count as equals. Without the day of acceptance of Einstein’s new theory, neither of Russians nor Americans would have days of wonder at launching of their first shuttles into space in the 1960s.
Without the day on which Newton discovered the law of gravity, you and I would not have days of travel on planes to meet loved ones, perform jobs we love, or conduct business transactions— absent precision of mathematical computations for overcoming of gravity, planes…
