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Matt Springer is a graduate student of physics at Texas A&M university. He is also an occasional writer and tinkerer, and he is probably too curious for his own good.
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Recent Posts
- Spherical Waves and the Hairy Ball Theorem
- Sunday Function
- Popular Science and Time Travel Shenanigans
- Inventing Relativity, 1860s style
- The Philosophy of Science of Lord of the Rings
- Sunday Function
- Maru the Cat does dimensional analysis
- Gauss' Law PROVED WRONG!
- Thoughts on Osama
- Enforcing the Cosmic Speed Limit
Recent Comments
- loan on Clearing the air on the Airy fuction
- Peter L.Griffiths on Ringing in Kepler's Year
- pop on Super Bowl Coin Toss, Mathematically
- uk writing service on Sunday Function
- Sesli Chat on Sunday Function
- afrika mangosu on Greatest Physicists #1 - Isaac Newton
- Arkand on Power from the Earth's Magnetic Field
- Anonymous on Greatest Physicists #1 - Isaac Newton
- Anonymous on Greatest Physicists #1 - Isaac Newton
- David Essiam on Spherical Waves and the Hairy Ball Theorem
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Physics/Math Blogs
- Cocktail Party Physics
- Cosmic Variance
- Mass
- Physicality of Words
- Swans on Tea
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- Arcsecond
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