Science and SciFi
Science and SciFi
Backwards and Forwards in Time
Time flies, time is money, time is a wise counsellor, time is relative, time is… very hard to define. Paraphrasing St Augustine I can say that I know what time is if no one asks… Read More »Backwards and Forwards in Time
“Death Ray” in Las Vegas – or the Hottest Spot in Las Vegas Strip
I first heard this in a talk by Miguel Alonso in the School on Modern Optics at INAOE earlier on in May. I still think it is hilarious… seriously hilarious… It turns out that in… Read More »“Death Ray” in Las Vegas – or the Hottest Spot in Las Vegas Strip
Twin Primes and the Ternary Goldbach Conjecture
Just like buses… exactly just like buses… you wait for one and two come all at once. That is exactly what I thought when I heard about the two results in number theory that… Read More »Twin Primes and the Ternary Goldbach Conjecture
Yuletide Disquisitions?? Come on!
I twitted earlier this week an Open Letter to the Royal Institution by Ian Gent in response to the bizarre and quite frankly ludicrous decision by the RI to trademark the term “Christmas Lectures”. I agree… Read More »Yuletide Disquisitions?? Come on!
Quantum Leap… Are you sure you mean that?
I have been meaning to write this post for a while, but for one reason or another (or rather many reasons…) I had not been able to. Right, so what has triggered this post? Well,… Read More »Quantum Leap… Are you sure you mean that?
Interfaces and Colloids – Book cover
I never found myself so interested in interfaces and colloids before. Great marketing!
Happy 306th birthday Euler!
In celebration of the Euler’s birthday, Google has created a doodle today. The doodle includes: The formula for the Euler characteristic, , which relates the number of vertices, edges and faces of a spherical polyhedron… Read More »Happy 306th birthday Euler!
Turing’s Universal Machine is voted the best British innovation
Turing’s Universal Machine is voted the best British innovation The theoretical “Universal Machine” proposed by Turing in the 1930s has been voted the greatest British innovation from the past 100 years in an online poll… Read More »Turing’s Universal Machine is voted the best British innovation