I was thinking back over an analogy I had used in a talk years ago, and I wanted to update it with some better references, and the math to show I’m not insane. I was trying to describe how weak a single photon is, I used an off-the-cuff analogy of a bb pellet hitting a [...]
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photon:me::tennis ball:earth
Posted in bad science, physics, try this at home on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Juggling forces
Posted in bad science, experiments, physics, try this at home on September 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What started as a pretty informal online chat about an old riddle has led to several risky video-experiments and an even shakier theoretical analysis. I find the discussion to be a good example of how physics tends to be more about choosing your simplifying assumptions than about answering real-world questions. It’s also good for a [...]
More from my home state
Posted in bad science on September 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
When it’s not a topless carwash it’s a lunatic weatherman, go figure.
Featured on a local news outlet:An Idaho weatherman says Japan’s Yakuza mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge itself for the Hiroshima atom bomb attack — and that this technology will soon be wielded again to [...]
RollingStone: Deadly Immunity
Posted in bad science on June 22, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Although a few points of this article are clearly written for effect, the signs of a massive coverup are too obvious to ignore. Big tobacco bought scientists for years this is nothing new… but then we stopped falling for their flawed studies; haven’t we learned anything from that?Using the Amish as a control group may [...]
