![]() It’s the only number equal to the sum of those below it and the only number whose sum with those below equals the product of them and itself.īut you don’t have to be Einstein to deduce that threes do not grow on trees. Pythagoras called three the noblest of digits. ![]() I am beginning to become obsessed with three – seeing trinities, triumvirates and triads of them everywhere except on the blinking trailer. “They all go the minute we get them in.”ĭid the Three Tenors, Three Little Pigs, Three French Hens, Three Stooges, Three Musketeers, Three Amigos, Three Blind Mice, three bean salad, Three Little Figs Cafe, three-toed sloths, three bedroom houses, Three Fates, Three Furies, three wise men, 3-D movies and Goldilocks and the Three Bears use them all up? “ There are never any threes mate,” the sales assistant said. He felt compelled to ask at the third Bunnings what was the chance of ever getting a 3 and was informed he’d virtually need to be on the doorstep at 3am on the day of delivery to secure the elusive number. The hubby has been to a variety of stores at various locations and been faced by the same dearth of desired numeral on every occasion. Is there some correlation between genius and electrified hair I wonder?Īt any rate clearly I have neither the hair, nor the head space to resolve what has become the V ery Vexing Mystery of the Number Three.įor some weeks now we’ve been trying to buy a three two stick-on reflective 3’s in fact, to affix to a trailer to mirror the ute’s registration so we can take some of the accumulated junk in the garage to the tip. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. As student and friend of Albert Einstein – whose hair also famously stood on end – Miller had the world’s best brain in his corner. Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. In any event who cared about the stuffy alumni. I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abstruse mathematics.” “ If I had done what they wanted my programs would be as dull as their classes. “ The academics were a special triumph for me,” he proudly declared. Miller was the bane of the intellectual elite who accused him of trivialising maths and science. This involved putting a lit piece of paper into a bottle and placing a peeled boiled egg on top: as “Watch it! Watch it!” the air inside the bottle heated up, the egg would be sucked inside due to the change in air pressure. He used his considerable showmanship to hook kids on the basic principles of physics.īack in the day when there were still milk bottles, many, many eggs were sacrificed in households across the land by children trying to replicate his most famous trick to demonstrate atmospheric pressure. With his outlandish wiry ear muffs and beetling black brows raised independently in fierce inquiry, he was the poster boy for the most unpopular of sciences. ApProfessor Julius Sumner Miller was an icon for Cadbury chocolate in the 80’s period with his quirky household experiments such as the memorable egg in the bottle trick. He grew up on the family farm in the United States, before pursuing his passion for physics.It may be 27 years since his death, but who can’t immediately conjure Professor Julius Sumner Miller asking that trademark question in his trans-Atlantic twang? ![]() Professor Miller, born in 1909, was his Eastern European parents' ninth child. He used the developments as reminder to have "faith in physics", before moving on with his show. "It went! It went! Oh ho! … Mamma mia did it go!" Professor Miller exclaimed in shock and delight. ![]() He returned to his lesson to explain what may have gone wrong, when an almighty bang thundered through the set. Then he waited … and waited … but the drum remained disappointingly intact. Next, he doused it with a watering can, and later, ice. Soon after, it started spewing steam and the Professor and an assistant sealed it up. The beloved presenter of Why Is It So? graced Australian television screens from 1963-1986, sharing his passion for physics through a variety of entertaining experiments. That's a (very rough) description of Professor Sumner Miller's 1964 attempt to crush a metal drum with a dash of water and the power of physics. It starts with a flop, and ends with a bang, and not once does Professor Julius Sumner Miller's faith in physics falter. ![]()
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