Tag: physics
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June 11, 2006 02:45 AM EDT --
With a new hurricane season upon us I thought it might be fun to post a series of letters I wrote for the young daughter of my dear friends in Chicago. The letters attempt to answer a question her father . . . more
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November 17, 2007 09:24 AM EST --
A new Theory of Everything was reported this week in the New Scientist in a paper titled , "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything." * . . . more
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July 13, 2008 05:50 PM EDT --
Last week, I saw a presentation on NovaNow about Dark Matter and how they are trying to find it in this mine, spending thousands of dollars, but so far have not found anything.
Now, I was very intrigued . . . more
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August 11, 2007 10:23 AM EDT --
Not only will you never touch me, you're not even able to do so. In fact, you have NEVER touched ANYTHING in your whole life. When you "touch" a table, for example, the electrons in your . . . more
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November 15, 2007 08:53 AM EST --
THE ORIGINAL "SANTA PHYSICS" PROPOSAL AND A REBUTTAL
THE ORIGINAL "SANTA PHYSICS" PROPOSAL:
1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living . . . more
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February 29, 2008 07:47 AM EST --
Sailing the Maelstrom: A Case and a Curriculum for Meta-Science
When I was a child, my mother had a mantra that went like this: "He's going to be a marine biologist like his . . . more
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March 28, 2007 03:35 PM EDT --
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Edited 07/09/07 to include newly joined groups in distribution.
The previous consensus amongst scientists that sub-atomic particles were “stringlike” in nature . . . more
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September 12, 2007 11:46 AM EDT --
John flies a rocket transport service for the Post Office. This requires him to fly a transport once per day to deliver the mail. Fred was a stay at home friend, whose farm is on the route John uses every . . . more
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February 13, 2008 10:49 PM EST --
My words came back to me like birds returning from winter migration; where a lone, immature crane went south, it came back wiser, accompanied by an entire flock. Where I wrote "In . . . more
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March 11, 2008 09:37 PM EDT --
" I am as curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple." . . . more
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July 12, 2008 01:14 PM EDT --
Thousands of years ago Sacrates devoted some time to calculating the number of grains of sand that it would take to fill the universe. Which in his time was a good exercise in estimating the size . . . more
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August 12, 2007 02:19 PM EDT --
One of the primary postulates of physics is that the laws of physics are universally true. I would like to illustrate this with an example.
Suppose there was a being that evolved in an environment which . . . more
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May 16, 2008 12:34 AM EDT --
" The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous . . . more
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June 16, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
Here is the next in a series of letters I wrote for the young daughter of my dear friends in Chicago. The letters attempt to answer a question her father posed to me in reply to an e-mail I sent him . . . more
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November 29, 2006 06:28 PM EST --
Back when I was 19, my home town only received one bad TV station, KREX out of Grand Junction, Colorado. KREX was a pretty low-budget affair, and would make questionable broadcast decisions from . . . more
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March 28, 2008 09:53 PM EDT --
http://www.newsweek.com/id/128877
The biggest experiment in physics starts this summer in Europe. Will it change our views of the universe and our place in it?
By Ana Elena Azpurua | Newsweek . . . more
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April 12, 2008 05:43 PM EDT --
There is a tendency on the part of some Christians to see science as the enemy of religion. But many scientists are very spiritual. They may not be a member of an organized religion, but they believe . . . more
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May 07, 2008 05:30 AM EDT --
The present exorbitant price of gasoline has divided Americans into two categories. The first comprises those who moan about it; and cut back on groceries and even delay paying insurance premiums, . . . more
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July 07, 2006 12:03 AM EDT --
With a new hurricane season upon us I thought it might be fun to post a series of letters I wrote for the young daughter of my dear friends in Chicago. The letters attempt to answer a question her father . . . more
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October 15, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
What time is it? That depends on your point of view. If you are like me you look at a clock. But according to physics time depends on how fast one is moving. The faster one is going . . . more
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