“LHC destroys earth” being one of them.
(In case you didn’t know, Jeane Dixon was a “psychic”)
Daily Archives: December 13, 2008
The Mob Uses SI Units
Tony Soprano, Archimedes. Archimedes, Tony Soprano.
So Tony Soprano pitches ties a concrete block to Salvatore Bonpensiero and pitches him into the ocean, where he will inform the police no more. Being a big guy, Bonpensiero has a fairly low density compared to your average human being – say, 0.96 grams per cubic centimeter. That’s less than water and so he’d have floated were it not for the weight. Assuming Bonpensiero has a mass of 140 kilograms, how much concrete would Tony need to sink him?
Hmm. A big guy, so a lower density? You callin’ me fat?
All Squared Away
How would 10 top physicists—two Nobel Prize winners among them—describe Einstein’s equation to curious non-physicists?