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mirrors in use now see new side mirror share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in technology transport tags physics safety 3 comments pendulum harmonics november 27 2011 monado this demonstration shows how pendulums of different lengths fall in and out of sync share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in science tags physics leave a comment physicists and god may 21 2011 monado what do physicists mean when they say god physicists use god as a metaphor more often than other scientists especially in popular writing but in the technical literature as well of course this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion a rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic god tanner edis in is anybody out there share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in religion science tags god physics quotations religion leave a comment not always right the nasa edition december 21 2010 monado the customer is not always right here s one shopping for a better or at least longer skydiving experience customer how long is the free fall part me about 30 40 seconds customer 30 seconds i thought it was like five minutes that s how it is in the movies me but that s in movies actual skydives average about a 30 to 40 second free fall customer why me because that s how long it takes to fall from the highest altitude that you can safely jump from customer if i m going to pay 250 to jump i want to fall for five minutes me might i point out that it doesn t even take objects in space five minutes to fall to earth you could be in orbit and not get a five minute free fall customer so if i call around no one will be able to give me 5 minutes me no ma am customer is there anyway you guys could fly the plane higher so i d fall for five minutes me no ma am we cannot do that besides the fact that it is physically impossible you would die if you re still hung up on this five minute thing call nasa and tell it to them customer oh so they do that share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in humor tags humor physics leave a comment telescopes speed of light and star formation november 18 2009 monado the hubble telescope has taken some distant pictures of star formation my very basic explanation is below follow the link for alan boyle s description of the science behind this new image just as each of us is in the centre of our own personal observable universe so our earth is in the centre of astronomy s observable universe light travels 186 000 miles per second the light from our home star the sun takes about 9 3 minutes to reach us the light reflected from planets takes several hours the light from alpha centauri the next nearest star takes 4 2 years so when we look at distant galaxies we are effectively looking back in time at younger and younger objects thus powerful telescopes enable us to see developments of stars and galaxies at different times in the past galaxy m83 is 15 million light years away so we are seeing it as it was 15 million years ago and we can t see it any older if we look far enough we can see first generation stars the big bang a sudden expansion of space time produced almost entirely hydrogen and helium the two lightest atoms stars burn by fusion joining nuclei to release energy and creating heavier atoms they can continue until they get to iron which has the lowest energy nucleus creating heavier atoms would use up energy after it creates iron a sun s nuclear fires burn down without the energy of fusion to keep it hot the star collapses inwards because of its own gravity the energy from gravity smashes iron atoms together and creates heavier atoms that s how we know our sun is a second generation star our solar system contains heavier atoms than iron the atoms in our body have already been through one star s furnace share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in science tags astronomy cosmology physics space leave a comment science papers online march 15 2009 monado here s a boost to research more than half a million science papers online at arxiv their content description lists these subjects physics mathematics computer science quantitative biology quantitative finance statistics in other words these are papers that deal with mathematics and with quantifying results it s one of the ways in which the web makes science much more accessible to us hat tip to blake stacey at science after sunclipse share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in science web tags mathematics online resources physics statistics leave a comment amanda gefter how to spot a hidden religious agenda march 15 2009 monado amanda gefter new scientist sat 28 feb 2009 22 35 utc as a book reviews editor at new scientist i often come across so called science books which after a few pages reveal themselves to be harbouring ulterior motives i have learned to recognise clues that the author is pushing a religious agenda as creationists in the us continue to lose court battles over attempts to have intelligent design taught as science in federally funded schools their strategy has been forced to well evolve that means ensuring that references to pseudoscientific concepts like id are more heavily veiled so i thought i d share a few tips for spotting what may be religion in science s clothing red flag number one the term scientific materialism materialism is most often used in contrast to something else something non material or supernatural proponents of id frequently lament the scientific claim that humans are the product of purely material forces at the same time they never define how non material forces might work i have yet to find a definition that characterises non materialism by what it is rather than by what it is not the invocation of cartesian dualism where the brain and mind are viewed as two distinct entities one material and the other immaterial is also a red flag and if an author describes the mind or any biological system for that matter as irreducibly complex let the alarm bells ring misguided interpretations of quantum physics are a classic hallmark of pseudoscience usually of the new age variety but some religious groups are now appealing to aspects of quantum weirdness to account for free will beware this is nonsense when you come across the terms darwinism or darwinists take heed true scientists rarely use these terms and instead opt for evolution and biologists respectively when evolution is described as a blind random undirected process be warned while genetic mutations may be random natural selection is not when cells are described as astonishingly complex molecular machines it is generally by breathless supporters of id who take the metaphor literally and assume that such a machine requires an engineer if an author wishes for academic freedom it is usually id code for the acceptance of creationism some general sentiments are also red flags authors with religious motives make shameless appeals to common sense from the staid there is nothing we can be more certain of than the reality of our sense of self james le fanu in why us to the silly yer granny was an ape creationist blogger denyse o leary if common sense were a reliable guide we wouldn t need science in the first place religiously motivated authors also have a bad habit of linking the cultural implications of a theory to the truth value of that theory the id crowd for instance loves to draw a line from darwin to the holocaust as they did in the documentary film expelled no intelligence allowed even if such an absurd link were justified it would have zero relevance to the question of whether or not the theory of evolution is correct similarly when le fanu writes that darwin s on the origin of species articulated the desire of many scientists for an exclusively materialist explanation of natural history that would liberate it from the sticky fingers of the theological inference that the beauty and wonder of the natural world was direct evidence for a designer his statement has no bearing on the scientific merits of evolution it is crucial to the public s intellectual health to know when science really is science those with a religious agenda will continue to disguise their true views in their effort to win supporters so please read between the lines share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print more share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in biology pseudoscience religion science tags evolution physics scientific method 3 comments science fair project december 11 2008 monado more funny animals share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window 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