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	<title>Rosio Pavoris &#187; Physics</title>
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	<description>Unscientific and ultimately destructive.</description>
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		<title>Re: That Black Hole paper</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/06/21/re-that-black-hole-paper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is news? It&#8217;s the first thing I thought of when I first heard about black holes as a loli. It really feels like crackpottery that got past Phil&#8217;s sensor somehow (though it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me in the least Slashdot picked it up if it were).]]></description>
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		<title>What is Life?</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/06/16/what-is-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished this one a while ago, but I guess I never got around to reviewing it. What is Life? is, of course, a famous work by Erwin Schrödinger, of cat fame. In it, he argues that chromosomes behave according to physical laws classical physics can&#8217;t really approach, since classical physical laws are statistical, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Elegant Universe</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/04/27/the-elegant-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene, is a guide to physics in general and superstring theory in specific. Greene starts out by explaining, in simple terms, the basic ideas behind the theories of relativity and quantum physics, and how they&#8217;re increasingly coming into conflict. Relativity dealing with massive things moving quickly, and quantum physics dealing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The breakdown of simultaneity</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/04/15/the-breakdown-of-simultaneity/</link>
		<comments>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/04/15/the-breakdown-of-simultaneity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awesome-visual-aids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Feynman once said that all of quantum physics can be derived by carefully thinking about the double-slit experiment. All of relativity can be derived (much more easily) by carefully thinking about a flashlight on a train. Last time, I said one of the consequences of special relativity was that there is no absolute way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Special Relativity</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/04/15/on-special-relativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awesome-visual-aids]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special relativity is the theory introduced by Einstein in 1905 which overthrew our understanding of classical physics. It&#8217;s a special case of general relativity, which he would come up with later on. The central ideas of special relativity are so easy to explain that I&#8217;m not sure why it isn&#8217;t taught in high schools. Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Emperor&#8217;s New Mind</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/04/04/the-emperors-new-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book took far longer to finish than it should have. This is in large part due to the silly conclusion Penrose tries to reach, which just makes my brain bleed. The thesis of the book is simply this: Consciousness is not deterministic, therefore the brain works by the grace of God through quantum. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t understand Hawking radiation</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/04/03/i-dont-understand-hawking-radiation/</link>
		<comments>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/04/03/i-dont-understand-hawking-radiation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[showing-off]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The explanation I&#8217;ve been given says that due to vacuum fluctuations, a particle-antiparticle is created near the event horizon of a black hole, and one of these particles is drawn into the black hole, while the other escapes, thereby giving the appearance of the black hole emitting a particle. Now, the only way I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six (Not-So-)Easy Pieces</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/03/30/six-not-so-easy-pieces/</link>
		<comments>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/03/30/six-not-so-easy-pieces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Physics]]></category>
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<category>Richard Feynman</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished Six Not-So-Easy Pieces. Together with Six Easy Pieces, it&#8217;s a much abridged version of the Feynman Lectures on Physics, by, of course, Richard Feynman. I finished Six Easy Pieces weeks ago, but since it and the sequel add up to less than a third of a typical book, size-wise (about 140 pages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Infinite Book</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/03/29/the-infinite-book/</link>
		<comments>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/03/29/the-infinite-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[infinity]]></category>
<category>infinity</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I managed to finish a book before buying new ones! The Infinite Book, by John D. Barrow, tries to explain the concept of infinity in several fields, and talks about how it has historically been regarded. The first half of the book deals with infinity in mathematics. It starts with the obvious &#8212; Zeno&#8217;s paradoxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Briefer History of Time</title>
		<link>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/03/24/a-briefer-history-of-time/</link>
		<comments>http://cairnarvon.rotahall.org/2007/03/24/a-briefer-history-of-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cairnarvon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished A Briefer History of Time, by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. It&#8217;s a 2005 revisit of the famous A Brief History of Time. In it, Hawking briefly explains things like black holes, quantum physics, string theory, and the origin of the universe, in terms anyone could understand. And I do mean anyone. [...]]]></description>
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