Wednesday, March 2, 2005

AS bonbons

Via: Making Light: AS bonbons just in time for Seder, the four questions in Old English:

For hwi is þeos niht ungelic eallum oþrum nihtum?
On eallum oþrum nihtum we etað hlaf swa gehafene swa þeorfne. On þisse nihte, þeorfne anan.

For hwi is þeos niht ungelic eallum oþrum nihtum?
On eallum oþrum nihtum we etað mislice wyrta.
On þisse nihte, bitre wyrta anan.

For hwi is þeos niht ungelic eallum oþrum nihtum?
On eallum oþrum nihtum ne dyppað we swa oft swa anes.
On þisse nihte, we dyppað tuwa.

For hwi is þeos niht ungelic eallum oþrum nihtum?
On eallum oþrum nihtum we etað swa sittende swa hleoniende.
On þisse nihte, ealle we hleoniað.

There's some other goodies in the Making Light entry.

e.p.c. posted this at 21:33 GMT on 2-Mar-2005 .

Wave Theory ∩ Time

I took Physics in my Junior year in High School. I enjoyed it, we got to play with all sorts of things and perform many of the (safe) classic experiments in Physics. I also got a C since I didn't take the Calculus class needed for the Physics class until my second year in college.

Anyway, one of the experiments is called the Double Slit experiment: you aim particles at a mask with two slits in it. What happens is you get interference patterns which are a phenomenon of waves, not particles.

This classic experiment has been perfomed now with single electrons which are passed through a double slit in time. Read more in: New look for classic experiment (March 2005) - News - PhysicsWeb.

e.p.c. posted this at 22:54 GMT on 2-Mar-2005 .

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