Flying Car anyone?
MIT Press Release
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Counter-Intuitive
In End of Faith, page 183 :
When asked how thick a piece of newspaper would be if one could fold it upon itself one hundred times in succession, most of us imagine something about the size of a brick. A little arithmetic reveals, however, that such an object would be as thick as the known universe.
When asked how thick a piece of newspaper would be if one could fold it upon itself one hundred times in succession, most of us imagine something about the size of a brick. A little arithmetic reveals, however, that such an object would be as thick as the known universe.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
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