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.
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Posted on July 2, 2007 3:22 PM • 33 Comments •
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,...
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Posted on June 8, 2007 5:26 PM • 16 Comments •
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?
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Posted on March 8, 2007 8:38 PM • 34 Comments •