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A news headline that the tree line was moving north toward the arctic inspired this post. Comments raged between people who despise big oil for causing environmental meltdown, and those who say it’s just part of a natural process. Both sides pick factoids from the internet to support their dogmatism.
Arguments about global warming [...]

Yeah! More weird stuff! OK. Here we go. This is a post about what the cosmologists and physicists will eventually discover.
Analogous to the Earth’s plate tectonics theory, here is how the universe works:
Space-time is made up of many “tectonic” space-time plates which drift around the universe and have subduction zones and [...]

We were sitting around talking about units of measurement and converting kilometres to miles and so on. Then the conversation somehow digressed to how they used to use the length of body parts (usually a king’s) as a standard of length. For example, an inch was the length of a thumb, and so [...]

I was just thinking about the latest news from Iraq and how a Shiite cleric is urging 1,000,000 Iraqis to rise up against American forces.
Sigh.
It’s not about religion or about ousting the “evil” American occupying forces. It’s the same all over the world, whether in Afghanistan or Somalia or Iraq or wherever. It’s [...]

I heard the other day that this man was finally declared legally dead and that inspired me to start a rumor about Steve Fossett, the rich adventurer who disappeared during a solo flight in Nevada. I was going to post this note and say that I would deliberately start a rumor that Steve did [...]

It’s not the first and only example of Quebec’s ludicrous interference in human freedom of expression. This is from an article from the cbc.ca web site:
Quebec language police nab Montreal bar for vintage posters
An Irish pub in Montreal will fight an order from Quebec’s language watchdog to take down antique advertising posters from its [...]

I am not a physicist and I don’t know a whole lot of math. It is a hobby of mine to learn more of both, though. At this point in my understanding of things, I do not accept the quantum mechanical superposition principal where a particle can have two or more states. [...]