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2010: Best Blog by physics.org.
2010: People's choice award by physics.org!
August 30, 2010
Category: black holes
"The whole fabric of the space-time continuum is not merely curved, it is in fact totally bent." -Douglas Adams As many of you know, if you take a whole bunch of mass, and you've got nothing going on except gravity,...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 8:18 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 29, 2010
Category: Politics
They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews,...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 1:12 PM • 60 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 27, 2010
Category: Astronomy
"The most incomprehensible thing about the Universe is that it is comprehensible." -Albert Einstein The observable Universe is huge. Incredibly, mind-bogglingly huge. When we look out, in any direction, we see galaxies upon galaxies upon galaxies, stretching for billions and...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 7:51 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2010
Category: Education
"You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 11:00 AM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 25, 2010
Category: Gravity
"The only problem with the speed of light, is it gets here too early in the morning." -Danny Nevrath One of the most common questions I get asked is whether gravity is instantaneous, or whether there's a speed limit to...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 7:52 PM • 117 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 21, 2010
Category: Spaceflight
"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."-James Lovell, Astronaut: Gemini 7, Gemini...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 4:43 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 19, 2010
Category: Astronomy
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune." -Noam Chomsky You might remember when the Solar System had nine planets, but as unbelievable as...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 4:44 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 17, 2010
Category: Stars
Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 2:59 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 15, 2010
Category: Random Stuff
"For human love--the beings that change or die; Die--change--forget: to care so is a curse, Yet cursed we'll be rather than not care thus." -Mathilde Blind Every once in a while, a new artist comes along that surprises me in...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 1:30 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 13, 2010
Category: Hubble
"A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in...
Posted by Ethan Siegel at 1:26 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
