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f his involvement with Aldous Huxley and Barbara Brown in the Los Angeles covey of early American LSD ex

. Of all possible two-dimensional shapes with the same perimeter, the circle contains the greatest area; in three dimensions, it’s the sphere. In his Principia, Newton reports his work determining the optimal shape of round solids, with circles of revolution having the same effective cross section, in order

, and it wouldn't be the last.... Coming to grips with the strange behavior of quantum mechanics means often accepting the seemingly impossible. As Brown himself amusingly put it when trying to explain the theory of his intensity in- terferometer, he and Twiss were expounding the "paradoxical nature o

ous—and oddest—scientists in history: Isaac Newton. It is not inappropriate to classify Newton as a modern mind—after all, his seventeenth-century Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy uncovered the classical laws of motion and laid the basis for his theory of gravity, both of which f