Sunday, October 17, 2010
A cool Father's day present II
My family did it again. As they did last year, they gave me a DVD of a season of The Big Bang Theory. I am looking forward to watching all of Season 3. Most of the episodes I have not seen because we do not own a TV. But a few I have seen on planes. In the first episode Sheldon is dis-illusioned when he finds out that he did not detect magnetic monopoles and thus confirm string theory on his trip to the Arctic.... He was actually detecting noise from the electric can opener... Too bad he had already sent an email to everyone in the university about his results...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
What criteria should be used to evaluate theories of emergence properties?
What criteria do people use to decide if a theory in physics is successful? For special relativity, general relativity, and quantum theory, ...
-
An interesting and controversial question for Ph.D's in science and engineering is too what extent students should be expected to have ...
-
Some of my colleagues and I have started an interesting discussion about how to teach quantum theory to undergraduates. We have courses in t...
-
As years go by the PhD thesis in science and engineering is less and less of a ``thesis'' and more just a box to tick. There was a t...
No comments:
Post a Comment