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It seems Pope Francis needs to brush up on his Tertullian!

It has been reported (in The ChristLast Media, I must note) that the current Pope does not like the phrase "lead us not into temptation...

"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture." -- Pope Sixtus III

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

"And St. Attila raised the Hand Grenade on high, saying, 'O, Lord, bless this, thy Hand Grenade, that, with it, thou mayst blow thy enemies..

...to tiny bits, in thy mercy. And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and carp, and sloths, and entropies, and breakfast cereals, and..."

Entropy: The new order

The universe gets messier every day - but can we tame the chaos? Mark Buchanan investigates a controversial new take on entropy:

CONSTANTINO TSALLIS has a single equation written on the blackboard in his office. It looks like one of the most famous equations in physics, but look more closely and it's a little bit different, decorated with some extra symbols and warped into a peculiar new form.

Tsallis, based at the Brazilian Centre for Research in Physics, Rio de Janeiro, is excited to have created this new equation. And no wonder: his unassuming arrangement of symbols has stimulated hundreds of researchers to publish more than a thousand papers in the past decade, describing strange patterns in fluid flows, in magnetic fields issuing from the sun and in the subatomic debris created in particle accelerators. But there is something even more remarkable about Tsallis's equation: it came to him in a daydream.

In 1985, in a classroom in Mexico City, Tsallis was listening as a colleague explained something to a student. On ...

Sorry for the tease from New Scientist , but I am not going to spend $4.95 to read the rest of it. Especially since it was just an excuse for another Monty Python quote.

If you would not mind spending $4.95 for the rest of the article, could you help a blogger out and post it here in a comment?

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First of all, the word is SEX, not GENDER. If you are ever tempted to use the word GENDER, don't. The word is SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! For example: "My sex is male." is correct. "My gender is male." means nothing. Look it up. What kind of sick neo-Puritan nonsense is this? Idiot left-fascists, get your blood-soaked paws off the English language. Hence I am choosing "male" under protest.

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