There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. – Douglas Adams And the above quote is [...]
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I Am Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds
65 years… Surreal! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test) http://www.mbe.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/index.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
Thermodynamics and girlfriends
I came across an article recently, it was about Drakes equation an the number of potential girlfriends in London. That lead me to a similarly paper that states: Since it is much more likely to have a girlfriend, we can suppose that in a random system (one without social standards, fear or psychological complexes) nearly everybody would have [...]
My first tricorder
I just stumbled on this, my very own tricorder! Android rules!
Light just falls in to it…
Remember the ship Zaphod and the gang steals from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe? It was made of this: “Three things can happen to light when it hits a material,” says Boston College Physicist Willie J. Padilla. “It can be reflected, as in a mirror. It can be transmitted, as with window [...]
Homework
“Creating a microscopic black hole is tricky, since one needs a reasonable amount of neutronium, but may possibly be achievable by jamming large numbers of atomic nuclei together until they stick. This is left as an exercise to the reader.” From the Sundayafternoonstuff department…
More of that stuff
Did You, by the way, know that most children have been put here, in this world, to increase the entropy of our universe?
Physics 101
Perception of time is an illusion caused by the continuous alteration of the universe, a measure of increasing entropy.
Dimensions #10
10. The Tenth Dimension – A Point? Before we discussed the first dimension, we could say that we first started out with dimension zero, which is the geometrical concept of the “point”. A point indicates a location in a system, and each point is of indeterminate size. The first dimension then, takes two of these [...]
Dimensions #9
9. The Ninth Dimension – A Fold As we’ve explored already, we can jump from one point in any dimension to another simply by folding it through the dimension above. If our ant on the newspaper were a two-dimensional Flatlander, then folding his two-dimensional world through the third dimension would allow him to magically disappear [...]