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Saturday, July 23, 2011
The Five Most Mind-Blowing Implications of Special Relativity
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5. Loss of Absolute Space In the olden days, before the earth cooled, people tended to believe in absolute space. If you drove for fifty m...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
"Ex Uno Fonte", Part II: A Common Search For Understanding
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The motto of my school, the College of Wooster, is the following Latin phrase: " Scientia et religio ex uno fonte ". Literally tra...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Final Black Hole Note: This Is Absurd
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A couple of black hole notes ago, I was able to roughly deduce the size of the Vulcan black hole in Star Trek (2009) and take a stab at its...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Bonus Black Hole Note! The Enterprise Was Never In Any Danger!
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At the end of Star Trek , the Enterprise is caught in the gravitational well of the black hole, seemingly inescapably so, and escapes only b...
Monday, May 30, 2011
Red Matter: Trying to Explain Black Holes in Star Trek
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Preface: I KNOW that Star Trek (2009) played merry hell with all sorts of physics. I'm not trying to explain how contrary they run to re...
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Taking On Global Warming "Skeptics"
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Well, this post has been a long time coming. Almost three weeks, as a matter of fact. Before I get started, some quick news: The first dep...
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