Month: August 2003
More Fun Stats
Remember how I added the “Prolific Commentators” section to my sidebar? I bet you’re curious to find out where you fit in if you didn’t make the top 15. Thus, I present the top 30 commentators. For those who want to have some more fun, view that same page, but pass a different numerical value to the variable “max” through the URL.
If anyone wants the PHP code I used to produce such a list (for Movable Type using MySQL), just let me know.
I Love Quantum Mechanics
I’ll have to find a copy of the paper talked about here. Peter Lynds, a broadcasting school tutor, decided to write a paper on Quantum Mechanics with an idea that seems so obvious in retrospect. He purports that Einstein and Zeno were on the right track.
To simplify Lynds’ point: There can never be a solitary moment in time due to the infinitessimal reduction of time intervals, therefore a moving object can never have a precise location. Conversely, there is no precise moment of time a moving object will exist at a particular point.
Following this further, if precise moments of time and precise locations do not exist, neither can velocity. As you can imagine, his work has been highly controversial.