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Movie Physics

Posted: Tuesday, June 14th, 2005 @ 1:13 pm in Science, General | Comments Off

I’ve added a link at the right for the Intuitor Movie Physics site. Good explanations of where movies commonly get the physics wrong. Some reviews as well; “The Core” is called the Worst Physics Movie Ever.

Time to go to Harvard?

Posted: Friday, June 10th, 2005 @ 2:35 pm in Science, Feminism, General | Comments Off

See here and here for Heather Mac Donald’s sharply-worded description of Harvard’s new diversity efforts.
Maybe it’s time for me to pull out my CV and toss them an application. It’s only been a couple years since I leaked out of the scientist pipeline.
Nah, Harvard’s too far south for me. I need short summers […]

Quantum Mechanics

Posted: Tuesday, May 24th, 2005 @ 12:20 pm in Science, General | Comments Off

More on the Theory of the Quantum Fish.
Seriously, I do think that with quantum mechanics, God left himself a “back door” through which to work in the universe. A little tweaking of a wavefunction, and bam! A miracle! I just hadn’t connected it to Creation before.

Important Scientific Breakthrough–The Theory of the Quantum Fish

Posted: Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 @ 11:12 am in Science, General | Comments Off

It’s MFH’s (my foofy husband’s) birthday today!!!
Last night, in the middle of talking about God and quantum indeterminancy, he connected it to evolution: “so you have this water, and then, BAM! A fish!” Actually, it would be a fish and an anti-fish. With mass-energy equivalence (Einstein’s E=mc^2), a particle and its […]