Physics of Neal Stephenson's Anathem

...just have a few spoileriffic comments about Stephenson's use of physics: Of course, the most obviously dodgy thing here, as Stephenson ...end up being carried from universe to universe apparently intact. Nuclear physics wasn't my specialization, but I'm pretty sure that doesn... our universe and had to deal with our laws of physics, it'd just decay, probably catastrophically. (Asimov was closer to...

Long range forecast: Very, very cold and very, very dark

Deep . As the author wrote : "immortality will lose a lot of its appeal." The science is accurate. For details see the End of the Universe .

Fortean Diversions: Ghost in the Machine –

Originally published at Sophrosyne Radical . Please leave any comments there. “Stories about fickle machines run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous. One perfectly outrageous story concerns a Soviet supercomputer that supposedly electrocuted a man who beat it in a chess game. According to the story, the supercomputer was ordered to stand trial for the murder of a chess ...

Higher and Higher

Large Hadron Collider sets world energy record ... and the world is still here. Via Slashdot .

Physics with Animal Puppets!

Magic or Physics

it's witchcraft i tell ya, witchcraft...!!! nah, actually any engineer could explain exactly what's going on here...

I would like a Kon-El in a Biology Tree now

On the twelfth day of Christmas, coffeebased sent to me... Twelve ribosomes singing Eleven runaways writing Ten glycolysis a-drawing Nine arnis composing Eight thesis a-reading Seven blockmates a-walking Six physics a-painting Five gra-a-a-aphic novels Four writing letters Three olympus cameras Two teen titans ...and a kon-el in a biology. Get your own Twelve Days :

Trillian baby why you gotta do a thing

Phew, just got confirmation that my prof received my project for physics. THAT TAKES A LOAD OFF HOLY GEEZ was seriously worried about failing there. Dr King said I could use the same topic I used for my presentation for my final paper so that means 2/3 final papers are roughly outlined and moderately researched, the two that are due first as luck would have it. And I switched topics for Katsu's ...

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... That will make it easier for him to count. Bob Austin, Professor of Physics, Princeton Hal Lewis, emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara Will Happer, Professor of Physics, Princeton Larry Gould, Professor of Physics, Hartford Roger Cohen, former Manager, Strategic Planning, ExxonMobil Серьезно, однако. via worldtensor

Fascinating argument:

The following is definitely philosophy and not physics, since physics would mean thinking of a way to test for this: "One silicon atom of the same isotope is identical to every other silicon atom of that isotope in the entire universe." "But we haven't arrived at a satisfactory conclusion as to the constituent parts of all atoms, as I understand it. Isn't it possible that they differentiate down...