Science and SciFi
Mathematical theorem network built from Walter Rudin’s Principles of Mathematical Analysis. Scientific knowledge is built by building up on hypotheses and theories, repeatedly check them against observations of the natural world and continue to… Read More »Mathematical Theorems – Sci-advent – Day 6
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). It has become a prominent facility due to the work that is being carried there to prove… Read More »Large Hadron Collider – Sci-advent – Day 5
A thousand feet (304 meter) underground, the Cave of Crystals (pictures) is just one of a series of glittering caverns beneath the Desert in the Mexican state of Chihuahua near Naica (map). Much of the complex would… Read More »The Cave of Crystals – Sci-Advent – Day 4
The image shows the flow of hot air passing through the piping in a cooler for a new engine that is able to lower the temperature of the air lower than -140C in just… Read More »Skylon – Sci-advent – Day 2
In the tradition of Advent Calendars, I will be posting some science related entries from today up until Dec 24th… So, here’s the first entry: Panoramic View From ‘Rocknest’ Position of Curiosity Mars Rover… Read More »Rocknest – Sci-advent – Day 1
A couple of weeks ago I was talking about logarithms and their use. They may seem to be a bit esoteric and they can cause a bit of head-scratching: a logarithm (base ) of a… Read More »Working with logarithms base 10, 2 and e…
If you happen to have a chance to visit Bletchley Park do not miss the opportunity to visit the National Museum of Computing where you will be able to see a large collection of computers… Read More »The Harwell Dekatron is alive… alive!
David Martin, a retired British civil servant was cleaning the chimney of his house in Bletchingley (Surrey), 35 miles south of London, when he found the remains of a pigeon. But this was not any… Read More »The most secret of messages…
When Apple launched iBooks Author back in January 2012 I was quite curious to see the things that you were able to do with it. It all looked very nice and relatively easy to use.… Read More »iBooks Author supports LaTeX now