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Date: January 28th, 2008

The Relativistic Van

28 January, 2008 (16:14) | Physics | 2 comments

Who cares about gas mileage? This sucker warps time!
When relativity is discussed in popular literature it’s often couched in terms of affecting objects moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light, and that’s a true statement: kinematic time dilation cannot generally be ignored in that situation. But the implication that the [...]

The Geometry of a Cow

28 January, 2008 (16:03) | Cartoon, Humor, Physics | 2 comments

There’s an old physics joke about the dairy (Motto: “Smell Our Dairy Air!”) that hires cosultant after consultant to help optimize their milk production but to no avail. Each and every time, the end result is that nothing has improved. Finally they hire a physicist, who comes in and takes all sorts of [...]

 

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