July 14, 2014
Here is another off the wall blog. You won’t find any physics in here… Is GenY lost? In a recent NYT article, Todd G. Buchholz and […]
June 27, 2014
I’ve been thinking about how to make a powerful weapon based on a relatively weak light transmitter which can be tuned in frequency. This could be […]
June 21, 2014
You’ve probably heard the word “photon” before, as in “photon torpedoes” popularized in the original Star Trek. “Photons” are what physicists call “light” or electromagnetic radiation, […]
May 18, 2014
This is part 3 and final installment in the Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter blog. Please read parts 1 and 2 for context. In part 2 I […]
May 18, 2014
This blog extends part 1 of a blog with the same title, and is followed by part 3. Albeit imperfect, the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence […]
May 18, 2014
Ha ha! The title should garner angry crowds bearing sharpened spoons*, chanting before my office window in Mountain View. *Because spoons are the only tools their […]
May 14, 2014
Consider this post, which firmly states that proto-Earth Kepler 186-f has a 50% chance of harboring technologically equipped intelligent life: http://www.science20.com/quantum_gravity/blog/a_better_than_5050_chance_kepler186f_has_technological_life-134555 Although about science, this blog […]
April 22, 2014
Why is the universe so homogenous? It should be a lot more clumpy. Right after the Big Bang, the universe was still quite small and all […]
May 8, 2012
Today I have a social issue on my mind. Did you know that in California it is illegal for workers at orphanages to hug the children? […]