Hannes Alfvén: Existence

Hannes Alfvén was Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist. Explore interesting quotes on existence.

Hannes Alfvén: 18 quotes9 likes

“Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory.”

Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 197.

“We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.”

Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 192.

“There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.”

Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 196.