Physicists, like the ancient Greeks, like to gossip about the gods. A few days ago, three physicists* were talking on Twitter** about a review by a fourth physicist, Freeman Dyson, of a biography of one of these gods, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and about his war with another one, John Archibald Wheeler.
Irish Class, August 19, 2013
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I sometimes see this license plate on a sports car in the parking lot at my bus stop.
I first read L. Sprague de Camp’s SF classic Lest Darkness Fall (written in 1939) more than 40 years ago. It still has not grown old. Tonight I ran across this passage:
From the transcript of the Apollo 10 Flight
Celebrating France’s First Resistance Fighter
Of course, they are celebrating him now in a Romance rather than a Celtic language.
From Explorator
Actual Queens Regnant. There were six before Cleopatra.
Unlike Cleopatra (Cleopatra VII in the Ptolemaic dynasty), the others seem to have been actual Egyptians.
From Explorator
Irish Class, August 5, 2013
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From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 