Rod Nillsen
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics,
Austin Keane Building, The University of Wollongong,
New South Wales, Australia 2522
Email: nillsen@uow.edu.au
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© 2009 Rodney Nillsen


"Driving to work, there was an amazingly vivid, complete and long-lasting rainbow. There's a rational explanation, of course. But each explanation has its own level, and the phenomenon always transcends the explanation. That is what makes science possible -- and wonder also." .....read more current comments.

The illustration on the right is a detail from one by Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), for Lewis Carroll's Alice through the Looking Glass.

The "BIG PICTURE DEBATE" was sponsored by the Academic Senate of the University of Wollongong, and took place on Wednesday, 18th November, 2009.


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