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How many bits will computer operation memory have and how many do we need to have to link every single particle in the Universe to the internet? And how useful … Continue reading Computers of the Future: How Far Do We Need to Go?
Simon was watching Daniel Shiffman’s live coding lesson on Wednesday, and when fluid dynamics and Navier-Stokes equations came up (describing the motion of fluid in substances and used to model … Continue reading Fluid Dynamics: Laughing and Crying
Simon tests how well different light waves travel through the minuscule hole of the camera obscura.
Bayes’s Theorem calculates the probability of an event based upon the conditions that might be relevant to the event and is widely used to test the precision of medical tests … Continue reading Bayes’ Theorem
Simon was trying to get a cylindrical beaker to float in water (first in bath and then in a deeper bowl), by filling it with the optimal number of marbles. … Continue reading Physics Experiments: Center of mass lower than buoyancy center
Simon has been fascinated about the Opponent-process theory (suggesting that color perception is controlled by the activity of three opponent systems, three independent receptor types which all have opposing pairs: white … Continue reading Electromagnetic Spectrum and the Opponent-process Theory
Simon studying light reflection as part of the so-called Penrose Illumination Problem: if a room with mirrored walls can always be illuminated by a single point light source, allowing for … Continue reading Illumination Problem
And some more winter physics: trying to powders snow and ice:
The number of collisions between two objects equals a number of digits of Pi. The code on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/Pool_Pi Simon writes: From where I got this I called this sketch … Continue reading Simon’s code for an intriguing problem from the 3Blue1Brown math channel
Simon explains why our modern satellite navigation (the Global Positioning System or GPS) is a great experimental proof for Einstein’s relativity theory and what would happen if the software calculated … Continue reading Newtonian GPS would place you on the wrong planet!
This is almost a magic trick that Simon borrowed from the Actionlab channel. Will the wooden block fall down on the ground once you let it go? Obviously, it will. … Continue reading Physics Experiments: Will the wooden block fall?
Geeks out of the box 