Striptease has become less interesting since they did away with the costumes. It’s become Newtonian. The movement of bodies through space, period. It can get boring.
Tag: physics
How to create an extreme overhang with toy bricks [$]. Via BLDGBLOG, where you’ll find some great images of the crazy stacking and some architectural speculation. I’d love to see some crazy buildings tilting over like that.
The New Yorker on truth, beauty, and string theory. Along similar lines, last month’s Wired featured a brief little interview with Lee Smolin, who just published The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next. While we’re on the topic, take a look at the introduction to 10 dimensional space I linked about a month ago.
String theory isn’t the golden child it used to be, but you can still learn about existing in ten dimensions.
Mark Larson 