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Rob Knop earned a PhD in Physics from Caltech in 1997, and did a 5-year post-doc with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and contributed to the discovery of the accelerating Universe. He was an assistant professor of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt for 6 years before scattering out of academia. He now works for Linden Lab, the producers of Second LIfe. (Note: this is not an official site of Linden Lab! Although I work for Linden Lab, all content in this blog is posted without the review or approval of Linden Lab. All statements and opinions expressed here are my own.)
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Category: Physics
An excerpt from the material that was in a talk I gave at a science fiction convention a few weeks ago: the motion of space fighters in Star Wars and Babylon 5, and why one is wrong and the other is right.
Posted by Rob Knop at 3:22 PM • 33 Comments •
Category: Physics
Most of the misconceptions about and misuses of quantum mechanics (QM) comes a misunderstanding of the stochastic nature of QM. In the 20th century, as we came to understand that QM is how the world works on a fundamental level,...
Posted by Rob Knop at 5:26 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Physics
Entropy is used a lot in everyday conversation, as a metaphor, and as a general stand-in for randomness, disorder, or things falling apart. But what is it really?
Posted by Rob Knop at 8:38 PM • 34 Comments •
