[vimeo]33181232[/vimeo] The orchestrator of this performance writes: While following on the coat tail of my first popular video “Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix” I tried to change the venue and built a couple of robot bands (yeah! machines that play actual instruments). These videos didn’t fair as well so i decided to go […]
Year: 2012
2012 Yearly Golfball Patents: A look back
Over the course of the last year Improbable has attempted to address the question of whether the number of new patents for golfballs might or might not be used as a continuous gauge for human ingenuity. With the recent publication of December’s figures, The full results are now in. Statistics : Highest monthly level : 11 golfball […]
Hawking’s theory (of God’s mind) validated in Beverly Hills?
Physicist Stephen Hawking boosted his fame and income by writing the following phrase at the end of his book A Brief History of Time: “If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of reason – for then we should know the mind of God.” Evidence suggests that a company in Beverly Hills, […]
A Bosch painting as a metaphor for theoretical physics
The In The Dark blog presents a metaphor for modern theoretical physics: [This is] the painting that I often use to introduce cosmology talks. I usually use this piece of Hieronymus Bosch Das letzte Gericht (The Last Judgement) to illustrate my feelings about the standard cosmological model: The top part represents the concordance cosmology. It clearly features an eminent cosmologist surrounded […]