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Friday, September 25, 2009

Night racing and Olbers's paradox

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It would be easy to think that the existence of night is solely a consequence of the rotation of the Earth and its location relative to the ...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Singapore and interstellar gas clouds

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Sitting at a country pub on the banks of the canal, basking in the Sun beside a weeping willow, the barges chugging languorously past, Singa...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Branching and interfering parallel universes

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"This universe is constantly splitting into a stupendous number of branches, all resulting from the measurementlike interactions betwee...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Genetic algorithms and Formula 1

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The status quo has been rather turned on its head in Formula 1 this year, with the sport's two great leviathans, McLaren and Ferrari, s...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Omega Centauri

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With a start, I wake in the middle of the night. A cool breeze caresses my face, and I hear the gentle ripple of water lapping at a shingle ...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

The Pomeroy Index

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The Pomeroy Index is the primary means of measuring the relative speed of Formula 1 cars which not only raced in different years, but in dif...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Is cheating part of the F1 memeplex?

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Predictably, the hyperbole is beginning to flow, and suggestions are being made that the allegations against the Renault F1 team constitute ...
Monday, September 07, 2009

Star formation and entropy

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If you take the statements about entropy in almost every elementary textbook, and indeed most advanced ones, they are contradicted when the ...
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Sunday, September 06, 2009

Clothoid curves, motorways, and Hermann Tilke

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Between the wars...road engineers became obsessed with working out the perfect transition curve - a mathematical method of shifting smoothly...
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Saturday, September 05, 2009

Sapphire, Steel, and Uranium-238

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Those growing up in the 1970s (that's Generation X , not the Transformer-loving Generation Y ), may well, if they lived in the UK, have ...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009

Ross Brawn and Harwell

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Ross Brawn's reputation as the greatest technical director in modern Formula 1 has been thoroughly cemented this year by the extraordina...
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