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Oliver Lodge – Scientist of the Day

Oliver Joseph Lodge, a British physicist, was born June 12, 1851, in Staffordshire, home of the English potteries. 

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A-frame retreat cabin at Oliver Lodge, Meredith, Lake Winnipesaukee,

Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States

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Coming in October: Richard Noakes’ Physics and Psychics. The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britain (Cambridge University Press)

Dr. Richard Noakes, University of Exeter

I’m excited to announce that the long-awaited book by Richard Noakes is now available for pre-order (affiliate links: [US readers] [UK readers]). Scheduled to appear in October 2019 as part of the Science in History series by Cambridge University Press, Physics and Psychics: The Occult and the Sciences in Modern Britainwill provide surprising insights into…

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Oliver Lodge, Psychical Research and German Physicists: Heinrich Hertz and Max Planck

Oliver Lodge, Psychical Research and German Physicists: Heinrich Hertz and Max Planck

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Imagine a deep sea fish at the bottom of the ocean. It is surrounded by water; it lives in water; it breathes water. Now, what is the last thing that fish would discover? I am inclined to believe the last thing that fish would be aware of would be water.

Oliver Lodge, Ether and Reality 

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“Plato compared the human soul getting a glimpse of heavenly truth to a fish lifting its head above water [Phaedo, 109e]. Aristotle observed that “animals that live in water would not notice that things which touch one another in water have wet surfaces” [De Anima 423a-b]. The British physicists Oliver Lodge, a key figure in both early radio physics and spiritualism, gave a boost to the term media in the sense that goes back at least to Newton: “A deep sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition with regard to the ether.” McLuhan, who in his youth loved to sail, made piscine obviousness famous, but was not original when he claimed: “One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.” In fact, fish probably know a lot about the water’s temperature, clarity, currents, weather, prey, and son on, but the point was that they did not recognize it as water. It was just background, the stuff that slides into infrastructural obviousness. As McLuhan said elsewhere: “Environments are invisible”.”

-John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media