Category: Science
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Oppenheimer and Star Wars
For a long time now I have sustained that Star Wars is not science fiction – and indeed it isn’t. Based on the same criteria, neither is Oppenheimer a movie about science – at least, not explicitly. Science Fiction Science Fiction is a specific genre. Although it lacks an exact definition, it usually involved the…
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Electrodynamics revisited
Yesterday I began reviewing Classical Electrodynamics. One of the things I regret about my undergrad life is that I never got to actually learn anything about electromagnetism. The teachers for both courses I took were… incompetent, in the lack of a better term. All they did was recite the book and use slideshows to talk…
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Ice cream!
There was something I wanted to write about today, but I ended up forgetting what it was during the day. Good thing is that I could retrieve my samples from the Chemistry Institute today, and already scheduled the equipment for my experiments next week. Also, there’s a wonderfully cute comic strip I took from XKCD…