I never watched mad scientist movies, except maybe Dr. Strangelove, and I don’t have a clue what biologists do. But Abstruse Goose here just seems to be describing real life. Sad. Not very. Much sadder: our AG hasn’t been seen or heard from in a month of Sundays. Has he retreated from this world? ______ […]
Abstruse Goose
When I can’t sleep, my brain thinks it’s fun to enumerate all the things I’m afraid might happen. I’ve taken to thinking about the derivations from the same Latin root — application, complication, explication, implication, replication — but sometimes get hung up on not knowing what “plicare” means. I do think the Yorks and the […]
You get this, right? that light travels at a certain fixed rate so TV programs (yup, light) leaving Earth in, say, 2010 would have gotten 4 light-years away and any star 4 light-years away would just be getting the program now. I’ve understood this idea for decades and I still get confused by it. __________ […]
Yup. Absolutely. No doubt. AG speaks for us all, or at least for many or us, or at least for me. I have a friend who loves to sit and do nothing, and I’m still studying her to see how she does it. No clue yet. http://abstrusegoose.com/554
AG’s mouseover says, “When I forget to charge my phone at night, my existence feels incomplete in the morning,” meaning I guess that he’s become as one with his electronic devices. But as I know because I’ve been writing an interminable story about insomnia, AG’s identity as an electronic device is just the God’s truth. […]
As a literate but functionally innumerate person, I hate AG’s title. I think it’s dumb and silly. But I thoroughly get why he feels the way he does about that equation. Really. What an odd pattern. Why would it happen? Would figuring out why it happened help you understand anything else? No? You couldn’t even […]
I just don’t have anything to add to this. Though I’m pretty sure if the NSA put their massive minds to it, they could figure out how to hear us thinking, let alone typity-typing on our computers without an internet in sight. Did you know that NSA is the country’s largest employer of mathematicians? It […]
AG here, based on his examples, seems to mean that the best science undercuts peoples’ faith in their beliefs, thereby annoying them deeply. I’m sure that’s true but I haven’t noticed it myself. What I notice is when, for example, some observer tells some theorist that no, in fact the universe isn’t coasting along slowly, […]