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Physics For The Rest Of Us

机译:我们其余人的物理学

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In his driveway in the heart of ultraliberal berkeley, Calif, professor Richard A. Muller has an unsurprising possession: a hybrid-electric Toyota Prius. What's surprising is his motivation for owning it. "It doesn't save me money'' he explains. "It doesn't help slow global warming. I just love the technology'rnIt's a measure of how popular this physicists lectures are that he can get away with such unpopular views. Surrounded by tree-hugging academics at UC, Berkeley, he dares to argue that coal and nuclear fission are good sources of energy. Hydrogen- and electric-powered cars won't do much to save either our atmosphere or our balance of trade, he says; solar panels on residential rooftops make no economic sense; those environmental preachers Al Gore and Thomas Friedman are exaggerating the effects of global warming.rnMuller, 65, named a MacArthur "genius" in 1982, teaches a course called "Physics for Future Presidents," voted best class at Berkeley in 2008. Since 2000 it has grown from 54 students to 500, with a 100-person waiting list. Last year he put out a book with the same title (for a general audience). Over the past eight years he's attracted attention in public policy circles with his efforts to inject scientific understanding into the debates about terrorism, nuclear power, energy and global warming.
机译:理查德·穆勒(Richard A. Muller)教授在加利福尼亚州超自由主义伯克利市中心的车道上拥有一个毫不奇怪的财产:一辆混合动力丰田普锐斯(Toyota Prius)。令人惊讶的是他拥有它的动力。他解释说:“这没有为我省钱。这无助于减缓全球变暖。我只是喜欢这项技术,它衡量了这位物理学家的演讲有多受欢迎,他可以接受如此不受欢迎的观点。在伯克利大学的拥抱树木的学者的包围下,他敢于争辩说煤和核裂变是良好的能源。他说,氢动力汽车和电动汽车在挽救我们的环境或贸易平衡方面无济于事。住宅屋顶上的太阳能电池板没有经济意义; 65岁的穆勒(Muller)于1982年被任命为麦克阿瑟(MacArthur)的“天才”,他在65岁的穆拉(Al Gore)和托马斯·弗里德曼(Thomas Friedman)的环境宣讲会上夸大了全球变暖的影响。自2000年以来,穆勒于2008年在伯克利大学评选为最佳班级。它已经从54名学生增加到500名,其中有100人的等待名单。去年,他推出了一本同名的书(面向普通读者)。在过去的八年中,他努力将科学的理解注入有关恐怖主义,核电,能源和全球变暖的辩论中,从而引起了公共政策界的关注。

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    《Forbes》 |2009年第6期|3032|共2页
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    Kerry A. Dolan;

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