Recent content by InTheWoods

We are going to go out to breakfast, and then -- go look at RV rentals! Never done it before but thinking of trying it a few times!

A supposedly Native American saying about boys helping out: A boy is a boy. Two boys is half a boy. Three boys is no boy at all. Paraphrasing as quoted in "The Spirit of St. Louis".

Uh, didn't the Old Indian screw up answering the question? He didn't say anything about the future. Jes' askin'.

If there are no events, I think there are no experiments you can do that test any principles, but I don't know that that means time has stopped. Maybe that calls for a better definition of time. As to whether we have met or exceeded the speed of light (c), well, there are only relative speeds...

This gets a bit weird. There isn't just one time between a given two events. Events happen in different locations (that is, two different events can't occupy the same exact point in space). I can use a stopwatch to see how much time elapses between two events. And, yes, of course I have to...

Eeeaaaahhh..... I don't think many suppose this. The biggest thing wrong with it is that we don't travel due to the expansion of the universe. The rest of the universe is doing all the traveling. The motion that started with the Big Bang is, at every location in the universe, aimed directly away...

I think time feels like it does because we're doing the feeling with brains whose purpose is to manipulate the future. Actually, time is only the sorting of causes with respect to effects. FWIW I'm an actual physicist -- or I was -- but I was never that great of one, and mostly worked with heat...

Oh, I hate these things too! They malfunction and alarms go off and store staff has to come fix them. Would it really kill the store to give a human a job here?

Giving presentations to crowds. This I don't miss. I always did well, but I always had stage fright for days or weeks in advance.

No, it hasn't, for many people. I have a few friends who were basically given inaccurate gender assignments at birth. Most of them would look very out of place, and might stir up trouble, going into the rest room designated for their birth-assigned gender. And there seems no need for this...

For the record, I'm a measly 7 miles south of the Mason-Dixon!

Here's a Southern Black Widow lurking under the fake plastic boulder that hides our well. Suppose this goes along with living in the woods. I kept my distance and cropped after the fact. Fuji 80 mm macro lens handheld at 1/1250 sec, f/4, ISO 5000.

Here is a photo of a scientific effect that I took. It's two separate images of a light bulb filament. I exposed both images in exactly the same way. I used regulated DC power to light the bulb, and the polarity is different between the upper and lower images. Yes, the polarity of direct current...

The cat pooped on the sofa cover, so we put it in the washer, which burnt out the washer motor. Well, the washer was kind of old, so it seemed like a good time to replace it. $800 later, I'm finally sitting down to enjoy a little leisure. As far as I know, the cat wasn't reacting to all the...

Physicist. Like Einstein, but I've been a pretty mediocre one. Especially worked on heat transfer and polymer processing, also some optics and statistics.