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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Not looking at “the 99%”
Not so fast, folks
Following up on FTL Neutrinos??? and More on “FTL” Neutrinos:
Special Relativity May Answer Faster-than-Light Neutrino Mystery
Followup: FTL neutrinos explained? Not so fast, folks.
Referencing Times of Flight between a Source and a Detector observed from a GPS satellite, a straightforward calculation in basic special relativity once the issue is identified.
Occupy Minnesota after one week
I work at Hennepin County Government Center. The demonstration is based at the plaza on the north side of the building, so it is difficult for me not to see it.
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Math behind Mythbusters
How to Model Newtons Cradle. I read this before seeing Newton’s Crane Cradle in which the Mythbusters supersize the system. The model assumes conservation of momentum and that the collision is elastic, i.e. kinetic energy is conserved. Assume also that one steel ball cannot pass through another and the solution is determined by simple algebra.
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Monday night Irish class, October 10, 2011
Irish Class, October 10, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, an 10ú lá Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2011
The Runestone Museum
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Good Historical Novel
Helen’s Daughter is about the life of Hermione, daughter of Menelaus and Helen of Troy, and granddaughter of Atreus (Hence the Amazon blurb’s reference to “the curse that haunts her family”). The author, Laura Gill, knows the Mycenaean Greek world very well and tells a gripping and realistic story about what Hermione’s life might actually have been like.
Monday Night Irish Class, October 3, 2011
Irish Class, October 3, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, an 3ú lá Mí Dheireadh Fómhair 2011
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Seán Ó Ríordáin arís
Written in the stars
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
“Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice…” *
What will be the final destiny of the Universe? Probably it will end in ice, if we are to believe this year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics. They have studied several dozen exploding stars, called supernovae, and discovered that the Universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating rate. The discovery came as a complete surprise even to the Laureates themselves.
Also see Universe Today and the New York TImes
For background I have some links at Really long range thinking and Long range forecast: Very, very cold and very, very dark,
IT Inferno
I know I have been in 5 of these. Perhaps more: I may be repressing some memories.
From Slashdot
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 