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What are the flavors of light?
Electromagnetic Spectrum There are good reasons that almost everything we know about the distant universe came to us through measurements of light (electromagnetic radiation). Since light was present...
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can’t hug orphans
Today I have a social issue on my mind. Did you know that in California it is illegal for workers at orphanages to hug the children? I was shocked to hear this. I’m no expert, but conventional wisdom...
View ArticleInflation is Real!
Why is the universe so homogenous? It should be a lot more clumpy. Right after the Big Bang, the universe was still quite small and all the matter was compressed in this small volume. So gravity should...
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Looking for signs of life on Kepler 186-F
Consider this post, which firmly states that proto-Earth Kepler 186-f has a 50% chance of harboring technologically equipped intelligent life:...
View ArticleSETI – Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter: part 1
Ha ha! The title should garner angry crowds bearing sharpened spoons*, chanting before my office window in Mountain View. *Because spoons are the only tools their caretakers will allow. Not so...
View ArticleSETI – Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter: part 2
This blog extends part 1 of a blog with the same title, and is followed by part 3. Albeit imperfect, the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) tests a scientific question (hypothesis),...
View ArticleSETI – Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter: part 3
This is part 3 and final installment in the Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter blog. Please read parts 1 and 2 for context. In part 2 I divided spurious opinions regarding topics in SETI into 3 categories:...
View ArticleWhen are photons, photons?
You’ve probably heard the word “photon” before, as in “photon torpedoes” popularized in the original Star Trek. “Photons” are what physicists call “light” or electromagnetic radiation, when it displays...
View ArticleUsing “dispersion” to create honest to goodness photon topedos.
I’ve been thinking about how to make a powerful weapon based on a relatively weak light transmitter which can be tuned in frequency. This could be the basis of what, in Star Trek, they call photon...
View ArticleIs Generation Y Lost?
Here is another off the wall blog. You won’t find any physics in here… Is GenY lost? In a recent NYT article, Todd G. Buchholz and Victoria Buchholz, argue “sometime in the past 30 years, someone has...
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