Monday, July 9, 2012

Relativistic Bullshit

There is a quotation that is going around, attributed to physicist Albert Einstein.  It goes:

Everything is energy and that's all there is to it.  Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality.  It can be no other way.  This is not philosophy.  This is physics.

Friday, July 6, 2012

Hero's Welcome

According to this article, a lifeguard was fired for saving someone's life.  Supposedly, by abandoning his post to run to the rescue of a drowning swimmer, Thomas Lopez endangered the lives of the people Lopez was supposed to be watching.

The Higgs Boson

At long last, physicists at CERN in Europe have found something that looks like the elusive Higgs Boson, also called the God Particle.  It seems to me that the physicists themselves are pleased, but not ecstatic.  It seems to be the media who are waxing poetic about this particle.