Just finished Super Freakonomics. Great stuff, and well worth the read. I won’t spoil it for you, get your own copy They have a very interesting second to last section on anthropological climate change, and some interesting ideas on ways to combat it (as opposed to the “let’s just revert to medieval times” ala Kyoto). [...]
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Got asked this one this morning – a classic philosophical question which one can argue over endlessly. What interests me most about this question is the effect quantum mechanics has on the question. If we apply quantum mechanics, the question changes and becomes: If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no-one there to [...]
OK, after talking about Horizon’s program on infinity, here’s a simple (sort of) explanation of how the universe is finite and unbounded. By finite and unbounded, I’m saying the universe is a fixed (unknown) size, and yet there is no “edge”. No boundary. You can go as far as you like, and just keep going [...]
