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Geeks around the world, unite!
Though it’s still February, March is rapidly approaching and there are two very special occasions in March that I think you should spend some time with. Both occur on a very auspicious day to geek-kind, March 14th. The cleverer lot of you will realize that this is International Pi Day! But the insanity doesn’t stop [...]
Stand by me….
Thoughts on physics #3 Wigner’s Friend. Wigner’s friend is a variation of the Schrödinger’s cat paradox in which a friend of the physicist Eugene Wigner is the first to look inside the vessel. The friend will find a live or dead cat. However, if Professor Wigner has both the vessel with the cat and the [...]
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Thoughts on physics #2 Schrödingers Cat A thought experiment introduced by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 to illustrate the paradox in quantum mechanics regarding the probability of finding, say, a subatomic particle at a specific point in space. According to Niels Bohr, the position of such a particle remains indeterminate until it has been observed. Schrödinger [...]
And now something completely different…
Thoughts on physics #1 Light bulbs are not actually “light bulbs” but dark absorbers. When you turn them on, they suck the dark out of the room. You can prove this by holding your hand under a “light bulb”. The dark will stack up under your hand where its path to the absorber is blocked [...]
Pie anyone?
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. – Carl Sagan
Heaven is hotter than hell!
It is possible to make an accurate computation of the temperature of Heaven using a physical law called Stephens Law? This follows from data available in the bible. Isiah 30:28 reads: “Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as [...]