A New World
My ramblings about science….

Well I felt that as I wrote a blog on IceCube last week that given this news I should also write a blog on it…

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This is probably the coolest astrophysics experiment I’ve come across, a telescope that has all it’s detectors pointed towards the centre of the earth. Read the rest of this entry »

Well this is about as personal as my blog is likely to get…

If only because I don’t like personal blogs…

A short story about my life…

Or at least the bit of my life between about midnight and 2am…

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The answer given to this question seems to be wrong by a great many people.

It seems are many on our lovely forums who believe that the answer is something along the lines of:

Having a guess at how the world works.

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The following is based on a conversation with a friend on IRC earlier…

So what is handwaving? We often hear people describe something as handwaving…

So here’s my take on what a handwaving argument is:
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Well this is something that annoys me somewhat, because there is no need for it.

I’m going to discuss some aspects of stellar sized black holes, these are formed after supernova, from stars of about 20 Solar masses and themselves are about 10 Solar masses (between 5 and 15 depending on which you look at).
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From my previouse post “The Legrangian - How it’s used…” I had a left over question, which was to solve the legrangian equation of motion:

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http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=HTTOTGYXPCPWSQSNDLSCKHA?articleID=206904213

This annoys me, not the scientists doing it but the journalists, it’s another example of silly reporting.

Yep the hydrogen compound may well superconduct at room temperature, but you’ve got to have all the kit to compress it which really is not that easy at all! AND when you compress it the damn thing heats up so you’ve still got to cool it!

Impractical!

Firstly apologies about my lack of blogs recently, I’ve been REALLY busy… and there probably wont be much here for a while…

But a link for you…

http://www.google.com/sky/

For those of you who use google earth, there has been a sky addon for it for a while where you can peruse images of the stars… and now it’s online!

It’s rather fun, and a nice way to pass the time of day.

Well I’m stuck in uni for a little while before my tutorial starts at 1, so I thought I’d quickly explain how the Lagrangian is used.

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