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What makes a stone bounce repeatedly when thrown across the surface of a lake, and how many bounces can it perform? Lydéric Bocquet and Christophe Clanet explore the physics behind stone skipping
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LensRank (how we determine a lens’s popularity) will still be based on the same formula, measuring things like traffic, click-outs, reader ratings, inbound links and affiliate sales. But now we’re going to change when that formula is calculated. On Mo
Posts Tagged ‘physics’
American theoretical physicist Lee Smolin, author of “The Trouble with Physics,” states that physics has lost its way amid failed experiments and wasted funding. He cites repeated unsuccessful attempts by scientists to develop a “theory of everything,” or a single model to explain the theories of all the fundamental interactions of nature.
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Long Bets is about taking personal responsibility for ideas and opinions. Posting and betting under your true name is part of standing up for what you think. Anyone is welcome to cruise around the website anonymously, of course, but to participate in Long
Tags: BPM, CBC, cognition, cybernetics, design, experience, freedom, knowledge, model, philosophy, physics, presentations, software, systems, thinking, VSM
In
this guest editorial (August 24) in the IEEE Computer Society the
authors discuss a vision for the future of sensor networks that is
extremely compelling…. the piece serves as a great introduction to
the potential uses of Wireless Sensor Networks and the technical
challenges that come with the territory … well worth the read:
Overview of Sensor Networks by: David Culler, University of California, Berkeley; Deborah Estrin, Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles
Synopsis:
Wireless
sensor networks could advance many scientific pursuits while providing
a vehicle for enhancing various forms of productivity, including
manufacturing, agriculture, construction, and transportation.
Tags: climate, flow, intelligence, physics, sensor networks, sensors
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Jan
links for 2006-01-09
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Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time. Based on the p
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Michael Crichton’s new novel “State of Fear” is about a self-important NGO hyping the science of the global warming to further the ends of evil eco-terrorists. The inevitable conclusion of the book is that global warming is a non-problem. A lesson for our
Tags: climate, experience, learning, lists, philosophy, physics
Science’s 10 most beautiful experiments (from Nytimes.com)
<i>Robert P.
Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National
Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful
experiment of all time. Based on the paper
of George Johnson in The New York
Times we list below 10 winners of this polling and accompany
the short explanations of the physical experiments with computer
animations.</i>
Tags: physics
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NASA image of the day
Bursting at the Seams
Dramatic plumes, both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed 'tiger stripes' near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The tiger stripes are fissures that spray icy particles, water vapor and organic compounds. This mosaic was created from two high-resolution images that were captured by the narrow-angle camera when NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew past Enceladus and through the jets on Nov. 21, 2009. Imaging the jets over time will allow Cassini scientists to study the consistency of their activity. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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