Category Archives: physics

Ground Zero

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Granger Meador

Back in my college days I did a report calculating the effects of a 20 megaton nuclear bomb being detonated over Tinker Air Force Base near Oklahoma City. A new web mash-up makes that sort of thing terribly easy these … Continue reading →

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Doubling Up on the 5th Dimension

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Granger Meador

Imagining the Tenth Dimension, split into parts one and two, is a video explaining the ideas set forth in Rob Bryanton’s book of the same name.

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Inertia

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Granger Meador

I don’t think these workers took physics.

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Extrasolar Planet Images

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Granger Meador

For years astronomers have been identifying planets around other stars by observing star wobbles created by Newton’s Third Law of Motion. Today the first direct images of extrasolar planets were released. NASA showed a planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut, while … Continue reading →

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