How to Get a Time Machine and $700K


  Monday, August 8, 2011

A humorous, light-hearted essay about using time paradoxes and stock market manipulations to get a time machine.

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Finding Today’s Stardate (in The Next Generation)


  Monday, February 8, 2010

What is today’s stardate? Meaning that, using the calendar method in Star Trek, what is the stardate that corresponds with today’s date in our Gregorian calendar? The answer is more complicated and harder to find than you might think.

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A Solution to the Physics of Santa, Part III


  Wednesday, January 13, 2010

How does Santa do it? We saw in Part I that Santa has a lot of hurdles to get through. We saw in Part II that even a time dilation field wouldn’t give Santa an efficient operation. So how can Santa deliver his presents efficiently? Let’s find out in the final part of this Santa series.

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Why Time Travel is Also Space Travel


  Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Many people in Deloreans and TARDISes are time traveling around the timeline like they own the place. However, there is a somewhat unknown restriction on time travel, and that restriction is that when you travel from the same place to the same place, that same place has moved over the change in time. This is why Time Travel also involves Space Travel. Check it out!

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A Solution to the Physics of Santa, Part II


  Monday, December 28, 2009

How does Santa do it? We saw in Part I that Santa has a lot of hurdles to get through. One answer that many Physicists give when confronted with a “How” question about Santa is that Santa uses a time bubble, which can slow time down considerably. Yet how logical is this? Let’s take a look.

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A Solution to the Physics of Santa, Part I


  Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas! To celebrate, I have analyzed Santa Claus’s operation. For Santa Claus to be real and have a real operation, there are a large number of physics-based hurdles for Santa to overcome. Here is a documentation of several hurdles Santa needs to get through to prove his existence, with a promise for an upcoming solutions to the Physics of Santa..

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Star Trek Innacuracy #1: The Hand Phaser


  Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Star Trek is a good show. But some of its technology just don’t make any sense whatsoever when you really start to think about them. Of course they’re from the future and regularly go faster than the speed of light, so they’re not new to breaking laws of physics with their left hand and breaking common sense with the other. The phaser is one of these breaches in common sense. Find out why in today’s post.

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Why World Jump Day Won’t Do Anything


  Wednesday, June 24, 2009

So maybe you’ve heard this before, but just in case you haven’t, here’s a myth that needs to be debunked. Either the idea of a billion Chinese people jumping simultaneously and knocking the Earth out of its orbit and causing mass destruction or World Jump Day, designed to get everyone in the world to jump at once and “stop global warming, extend daytime hours and create a more homogeneous climate.” Both ideas are equally ludicrous and can be debunked in the same way.

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Death Star Part IV: How to Move a Celestial Body


  Monday, June 22, 2009

In the previous parts of this series, we’ve discovered that the most energy and time efficient way to completely destroy a planet is to push it into the Sun. In this post we use physics and attempt to figure out some of the best ways to move a large planet onto its path of destruction.

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Why Heaven is Hotter Than Hell


  Friday, June 12, 2009

Here’s a very interesting biblical contradiction. Using biblical references, we can use some physics jutsu to find out the temperatures of heaven and hell respectively. When we compare them together, we get some interesting results. Check out this post for some biblical amusement.

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