The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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This is a wonderful advancement by the Japanese at a time when we are exploring new ways to harness and extend energy. When my ancestor, Thomas Johann Seebeck, created the thermacouple, it was in the early 1800's. He was at the University of Jena in Germany, yet he was not a trained physicist but a medical doctor as was his on again, off again, friend and compatriot Goethe, who was also a medical doctor, turned writer, turned physicist. Yet, together they also successfully challenged some of Newton's theories on colors. At Jena, they also worked alongside the Italian, Volta, who during this period created the first battery and with them also was Peltier, the Frenchmen whose inverse application of some of Seebeck's discoveries, himself discovered what we know today as refrigeration. All of this in what became known as the Age of Electricity, which was advanced from day one by the American writer, printer, patriot, government official, Benjamin Franklin, also not a degreed physicist.
Einstein liked to say (and I am paraphrasing) that you could discover more about the universe having a picnic while sitting on a blanket under a tree on a beautiful day, than you could ever discover in a laboratory.
So, yes it is possible for those that have commented on this story to make observations that may yet advance such theories. This advancement might also cause you to consider possible solutions to many other unsolved mysteries of our planet and universe or at the very least to think about them.
This is how it all starts. The other day, a sixth grade student asked me, "Who blew the first bubble?" The class laughed, but I didn't, I was amazed and I said so and then asked why he had asked. He said because he wanted to know, who thought it up first, did we know and if so, what had motivated them?
This is how we can all become physicists, keep asking questions about the world around us and if we do, we will not only understand the why of it, but also we may discover ways in which we can all interact with the planet in a better way.
Bill Seebeck