Heavy Boots Editorial note: I received this as an email from a friend who got it from a friend who ... I do not know who the original author is, but I do believe this to be true. Who could possibly make it up? Heavy Boots About 6-7 years ago, I was in a philosophy class at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (good science/engineering school) and the teaching assistant was explaining Descartes. He was trying to show how things don't always happen the way we think they will and explained that, while a pen always falls when you drop it on Earth, it would just float away if you let go of it on the Moon. "No it wouldn't." the TA explained calmly, "because you're too far away from the Earth's gravity." I countered, "why didn't they float away?" "Because they were wearing heavy boots." he responded, as if this made perfect sense (remember, this is a Philosophy TA who's had plenty of logic classes). As we left the room, my friend Mark was raging. 1. About 47 percent got this question correct. 2. 13.
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Mapping Stereotypes by alphadesigner Get your copy on: Amazon US / Amazon UK / Amazon DE / Amazon FR / Amazon IT / Amazon ES / Amazon Canada / Amazon Japan / Amazon India / Amazon Brazil Atlas of Prejudice: The Complete Stereotype Map Collection Is the Universe a Holographic Reality? The Universe as a Hologram by Michael Talbot Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm? In 1982 a remarkable event took place. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery.
Orion Nebula | Alien Worlds: Shedding light on our unearthly universe We've been enraptured by this most eye-catching of constellations since ancient times. It's a beautiful sight that dominates our winter skies in northern latitudes. The constellation was named after Orion the Hunter, a character in Greek mythology. But those ancient stargazers could never have dreamt of the tremendous details that modern astronomy has uncovered about this star system. Story continues below animation. Download this animation from iTunes U © 2003 Torsten BrongerReproduced under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Wikimedia Commons, 2008 The ‘right shoulder’ of the ‘hunter’ is a star called Betelgeuse (sometimes pronounced ‘Beetlejuice’, but that's probably not the most correct way of saying it). It's very likely that Betelgeuse will soon explode and become a spectacular supernova. The constellation's ‘left knee’ is the brilliant blue star called Rigel. But perhaps the jewel in the crown is Orion's great nebula. © C.R.
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this is a much better tool, it is comunity based, so you can load the solar sytems made by others, even introduce your own dwarf star and wittness the destruction of home haha by bluemonkey Feb 6
go to hope you like this by angmelchor Nov 21
ye nice one, team up if you want mate by bluemonkey Oct 24
kerryldilks I can look around and try and find a more accurate version for you! I'll let you know if I find one. by heartfailure1738 Oct 24
This is obviously very inaccurate, and when showing it for a group of students you would need to be very clear about that. I do like to show them in order to give them a visual starting point in their minds. (prior knowledge) by kerryldilks Oct 10
It may not be 100% accurate, but I thought it was pretty interesting to watch - you do kind of get lost in it after a while. by dero Oct 10
Yeah lol I zoned out on this too for a short period. You know, the funny thing is that it is not accurate. Planets (and moons) actually rotate away or towards whatever is pulling them. This is why Saturn has rings. The rings were once a large moon, and since Saturn has such a dense core, it pulled the moon a little too close and the moon was disintigrated into the rings we see today. Our moon was about 190,000 miles closer when the earth grabbed the materials for it and it formed. I'm not a science elitist or anything lol I just find it interesting and astrological sciences has become somewhat of a hobby to me ;) by heartfailure1738 Oct 9
you understand that everything goes round forever by lotharfrey Oct 4
Yeah it would be awesome to have at home. by sabre187 Oct 4
I zoned out on this for nearly an hour one night. by djsabefantastic Oct 4