Archive for September, 2007

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Physics Puzzler 1- Noah’s Flood

The myth of the Flood of Noah, found in Genesis 6-9, presents many hypothetical physics problems.  Here is one I have never heard anyone consider:
The flood of Noah drowned the entire earth, and covered all the dry land.  Let’s assume this means it rained at least 9000 meters in order to cover Mount Everest.  The [...]

LaTeX Coding Test

LaTeX is a typesetting system particularly well suited for documents of a mathematical persuasion. It’s used almost exclusively by many technical, scientific and mathematical disciplines both in academia and industry. Let us see if i can implement it here onto this poor neglected blogsite.
Nothing like a Schrodinger wave equation to breathe new life into a [...]