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Las bolas de Cavendish
El polémico Fernando Vallejo habla sobre ciencia en este ensayo que no dejará indiferente a nadie.
En Las bolas de Cavendish se violan todas las leyes desde la equivalencia de la masa y la energía o Ley de Einstein hasta la Tercera Ley de Newton. Unosprofesores de la U de A y sus undergraduates, acalorados en la polémica pero muy orgullosos de que su universidad figure en el ranking de las universidades
del mundo en el puesto 1550, se adentran en los misterios del cosmos.
Vallejo, el fundador de la nueva ciencia de la imposturología, nos exhorta en este librito sin pretensiones a aumentar el caos que postula la Segunda Ley de la Termodinámica, la del desorden creciente que rige al mundo. Todavía no es el
apocalipsis. Pero ya casi
En Las bolas de Cavendish se violan todas las leyes desde la equivalencia de la masa y la energía o Ley de Einstein hasta la Tercera Ley de Newton. Unosprofesores de la U de A y sus undergraduates, acalorados en la polémica pero muy orgullosos de que su universidad figure en el ranking de las universidades
del mundo en el puesto 1550, se adentran en los misterios del cosmos.
Vallejo, el fundador de la nueva ciencia de la imposturología, nos exhorta en este librito sin pretensiones a aumentar el caos que postula la Segunda Ley de la Termodinámica, la del desorden creciente que rige al mundo. Todavía no es el
apocalipsis. Pero ya casi
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Published April 1, 2016
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About the author
Fernando Vallejo
35 books357 followersFernando Vallejo Rendón (born 1942 in Medellín, Colombia) is a novelist, filmmaker and essayist, born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.
Vallejo was born and raised in Medellín, though he left his hometown early in life. He started studies in Philosophy at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, but after one year he abandoned the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Soon after he began new studies on biology at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, which he finished. Then he spent one year in Italy at the film academy Cinecittá, where he obtained basic notions on cinema.
Vallejo then returned to Colombia with the project of filmmaking. Yet after difficulties with the Colombian Government in producing and, after he produced it, in presenting his first film (it was censored), he decided to leave his country.[citation needed]
In Mexico he produced and distributed three films about the violence in Colombia. He also wrote an award-winning children's theater script, "El reino misterioso o Tomás y las abejas." He has been living in Mexico since 1971, where he not only produced his cinematographic pieces, but also the whole of his literary work. Despite time spent in other locales, mainly Europe and the United States, most of his novels take place in Colombia. Some of his themes are grammar, biology, philosophy, physics, violence, pederasty, adolescence, drugs, death and politics, mostly related to places such as Antioquia and Medellín; yet his main theme is his life. His books are written in first person, in an autobiographical style.
His best-known novel, La virgen de los sicarios, has been translated into English as Our Lady of the Assassins. It deals with his fictionalized return to Medellín, and his relationships with two teenagers caught in the local cycle of violence. The autobiographical/fiction La virgen de los sicarios was made into a full feature film in 2000 and released in the United States as Our Lady of the Assassins.
In 2003, Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina made a feature-length documentary about him: "La desazón suprema: retrato incesante de Fernando Vallejo ("The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant Portrait of Fernando Vallejo").
In April 2007, Vallejo obtained Mexican citizenship and published a letter in which he publicly renounced his Colombian nationality. The letter presents the reasons for his decision by mentioning several incidents during his career, among them the recent reelection of President Uribe, that eventually led him to this decision.[1]
Vallejo was born and raised in Medellín, though he left his hometown early in life. He started studies in Philosophy at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, but after one year he abandoned the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Soon after he began new studies on biology at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, which he finished. Then he spent one year in Italy at the film academy Cinecittá, where he obtained basic notions on cinema.
Vallejo then returned to Colombia with the project of filmmaking. Yet after difficulties with the Colombian Government in producing and, after he produced it, in presenting his first film (it was censored), he decided to leave his country.[citation needed]
In Mexico he produced and distributed three films about the violence in Colombia. He also wrote an award-winning children's theater script, "El reino misterioso o Tomás y las abejas." He has been living in Mexico since 1971, where he not only produced his cinematographic pieces, but also the whole of his literary work. Despite time spent in other locales, mainly Europe and the United States, most of his novels take place in Colombia. Some of his themes are grammar, biology, philosophy, physics, violence, pederasty, adolescence, drugs, death and politics, mostly related to places such as Antioquia and Medellín; yet his main theme is his life. His books are written in first person, in an autobiographical style.
His best-known novel, La virgen de los sicarios, has been translated into English as Our Lady of the Assassins. It deals with his fictionalized return to Medellín, and his relationships with two teenagers caught in the local cycle of violence. The autobiographical/fiction La virgen de los sicarios was made into a full feature film in 2000 and released in the United States as Our Lady of the Assassins.
In 2003, Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina made a feature-length documentary about him: "La desazón suprema: retrato incesante de Fernando Vallejo ("The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant Portrait of Fernando Vallejo").
In April 2007, Vallejo obtained Mexican citizenship and published a letter in which he publicly renounced his Colombian nationality. The letter presents the reasons for his decision by mentioning several incidents during his career, among them the recent reelection of President Uribe, that eventually led him to this decision.[1]
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December 21, 2018
Un libro escrito al modo de los clásicos diálogos filosóficos en que las primeras obras científicas del renacimiento fueron escritas, como los Diálogos sobre los sistemas del mundo de Galileo. Aunque Vallejo insiste en un párrafo sí y el otro también en que desenmascará la impostura y la falsedad del discurso científico se queda en la superficie girando sobre más en la forma en que la ciencia ha sido explicada que en la ciencia en sí. El discurso científico tiene mucho de cuestionable y no está libre de ideología y valida una serie de ideas y de sistemas occidentales aduciendo su objetividad, sin embargo esa discusión a Vallejo no le interesa. En cambio se enfoca en discutir experimentos que se realizaron hace doscientos años, o incluso más, y cuya probidad ha permitido el desarrollo científico y tecnológico en que vivimos. Es más una rabieta que nada.
December 17, 2018
Ciencia con jajas.
April 2, 2019
Más allá de si se está de acuerdo o no con las tesis del imposturólogo Vallejo, que en varias tiene razón, se trata de un libro muy divertido.
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