Happy Agnostica!
It’s December 14, the anniversary of Quantum Physics (On December 14, 1900, Max Planck presented experimental results in front of the German Physical Society and announced that they could best be explained if energy exists in discrete packets, which he called “quanta.” Thus, the field of Quantum Physics was born.), and that means it’s the start of this year’s Agnostica celebrations!
What is Agnostica? Well, for those of you not paying attention the past couple of years that I celebrated Agnostica, here’s a quick rundown straight from Agnostica.com:
Agnostica is the only truly secular winter celebration. It is a celebration for the scientist in all of us, celebrating not some contrived story written thousands of years ago and translated seventeen times over until the Hebrew word for “rope” gets turned into “camel,” and then inexplicably the whole deal is replaced by consumer-frenzy dictated to us by a fat child-labor mogul in a fur-lined red suit, but rather of ourselves, the perfect self-defining nature of the universe, and of being proud of the human intellect.
So, hang up the Mobius Strings, deck the halls with Schrodinger boxes, and remember that, this holiday season, “in all things there is science”.
Agnostica proclaimed:
“An agnostic?” I asked him, “So what’s up with that?”
“Belief in ourselves!” he said, “Pure logic and fact!
“But what about us who have no religion?
“Who celebrate science? Don’t we get a smidgen?”
“Yes! We’ll celebrate science, not some `god’ in the sky!
“And declare that Jesus was just a nice guy.”
