Tag: Antony Valentini
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The trouble with Copenhagen
Dr Johnson famously settled an argument on the existence or non-existence of the physical universe by kicking a heavy stone and saying “I refute it thus”. But when it comes to the science of the micro-universe, the quantum world, no heavy stones seem to be around to be kicked. I have been thinking about this…
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Why we’ll never meet aliens
Well, the answer is pretty plain: Einstein‘s theory of general relativity – which even in the last month has added to it’s already impressive list of predictive successes – tells us that to travel at the speed of light a massive body would require an infinite amount of propulsive energy. In other words, things are…
cartesian product ... stuff about computing mostly 