A Particle Man's Life

is Always Intense



How can a pair of tiny particles remain connected, remain related, and perfectly responsive to each other, in spite of being separated beyond their ability to communicate at subluminal speeds? It’s as if a pair of twins are born but are never truly separate beings. They…

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Hey guys, thanks for stopping in for another Sunday wrap up! You know how it goes... Let's get some Show announcements out of the way and then we'll get to the links!

I'm sure by now you've seen that The Think Atheist Radio Show has been named a finalist in the About.com Favorite Agnosticism/Atheism Podcast of 2011 category, and in our very first year! We're thrilled to be distinguished in this way. It means a lot that everyone would have nominated us and then voted for us to…

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hello again! thanks for once again dropping by to see what i've collected for you guys.

 

first (you know i have to tell you about the goings on with the Radio Show first!), tonight on the podcast we have Ms. Ophelia Benson joining us! Ms. Benson is a philosopher and cultural commentator who can be found posting great stuff each day at the excellent …

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I hate posting this because it might make me look like a complete idiot, but I don't know much about physics and this is just my observation.  I was thinking that undergraduate students must have already their professors this question, if not people like me before and considered it.  I mean it must not be that easy because then there wouldn't be a problem connecting quantum physics, with gravity, and electromagnetism, etc.  In the quantum world, time could move so fast that we can't comprehend… Continue

Hi, my name is Shine--for the purposes of delicious Internet anonymity--and I want to major in English with a minor in Physics.



Unfortunately, I am not sure if this combination is even available at my university; to be honest, I’m embarrassed to ask my advisor. “Hello,” I will say as my fingers uncontrollably fidget with an indeterminate angst, “may I please change my minor from philosophy to physics?”



Am I really prepared for the potential mix of hilarity and condemnation… Continue