No Limit
Mom, did you know there’s a density limit? Density is mass divided by size! If an object reaches the density limit it will become a black hole. If you have … Continue reading No Limit
Category: Milestones
Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 1: There’s More than One Infinity.
This is the first part in a series of four videos that Simon wants to record about Infinities Driving You Mad. Don’t worry, you won’t go mad just yet! The … Continue reading Infinities Driving You Mad. Part 1: There’s More than One Infinity.
Impressions on Newton’s mechanics.
“Are you impressed?” – Simon asks, laughingly, and I can see it must be a pun. We are in bed, reading up on Newton’s laws of motion that talk of … Continue reading Impressions on Newton’s mechanics.
MathsJam Antwerp 23 October 2018
Euphoric fun at MathsJam Antwerp @MathsJamAntwerp last night, where Simon solved two 2×2 Rubik’s Cube puzzles and one tricky maths problem, and simply enjoyed socialising with like-minded folks. In the … Continue reading MathsJam Antwerp 23 October 2018
On Incompleteness
Simon is enchanted by Gödel’s incompleteness theorem (that he has learned about from Numberphile) and keeps talking about it: “There’re problems that we just can’t solve. But if we prove … Continue reading On Incompleteness
Inertial Reference Frames
Simon is greatly impressed by the fact that if the Charge-Parity-Time (CPT) Symmetry doesn’t hold, the whole special relativity theory would have to be reconsidered. Does general relativity rely on … Continue reading Inertial Reference Frames
Map of the piano chords
During his piano lessons, Simon has been working on a diagram that would map all the possible chords on the piano. I gave him a huge roll of paper to … Continue reading Map of the piano chords
Simon explaining Interstellar
Simon didn’t want to watch Interstellar (he generally dislikes fiction and often finds it too scary as well), but somehow he did get sucked into the story after his sister … Continue reading Simon explaining Interstellar
The Senses: Simulating Taste and Smell
You need 24 bits (3 bytes) to simulate color. That’s 24 ones and zeros. How many bits are necessary to simulate taste? Or smell? Correction: You would need 584 bits … Continue reading The Senses: Simulating Taste and Smell
Serious questions
“Mom, photons violate E = mc² and gluons violate E = mc²!” – Simon shouts, but what about the w and z bosons? He writes down the masses of the w … Continue reading Serious questions
Simon’s whiteboard
The whiteboard always reflects Simon’s current state of mind: On the left are Simon’s notes after reading Physics Girl’s blog about quarks (the colourful stuff is foam clay): Simon showed … Continue reading Simon’s whiteboard
Gelfond’s Constant
Simon spent two days testing out his new Texas TI-84 Plus CE-T calculator. I saw him play with Gelfond’s constant eπon the calculator: He looked up on Wikipedia that the decimal … Continue reading Gelfond’s Constant
Geeks out of the box 