Aristotle rears his ugly head, again

Time, motion and change. Aristotle calls time the number of motion. Whilst reading “The Fabric of the Cosmos” by Brian Greene, I stumbled upon a quote:
‘No one has as yet found the definitive, fundamental definition of time, but, undoubtledly, part of time’s role in the makeup of the cosmos is that it is the bookkeeper of [...]

Photons, Special Relativity and a Question

Okay, I know when you add relativity to quantum mechanics you get all sorts of ugly infinities. But I was thinking about probability waves yesterday, wondering what they were, and I discovered a little thought experiment. Considering only special relativity, we can take the Lorentz transformations and apply them to a frame of reference. Just [...]

Probability Waves

I was thinking about quantum mechanics again. In the standard pop-science book the author usually asks the reader to visualize a flat surface with different heights of waves on them. These waves, unlike water waves which show higher points of energy, for example, actually show in this visualization, the differing probabilities of a particle being [...]

Non Credo in Fortuna (again)

So, after reading all the b.s. on the internet from last Saturday, the “luckiest” day ever, now we get the b.s. about Friday the thirteenth. Again, it all comes down to how you choose to frame your times and dates. As it stands with the Gregorian calendar, there is a slightly greater incidence of the [...]

Non Credo in Fortuna

I’m sure everybody by now has noticed today’s date. And you know? It pisses me off. All of the enlightened, scientific, technologically advanced, liberal-minded and socially advanced people in this country are no better than prehistoric monkey-men leaping around a fire with sticks (shades of 2001). I’m sure you realized that there is a record [...]

Pop Quiz

Suppose you were still in school and your teacher told you on Friday that you had a pop quiz coming the next week. Now if you were smart, you’d ask her when the quiz was. She’d reply, of course, that if you know when a pop quiz is, it ceases to be a pop quiz. [...]