Posts tagged physics

Why you can’t see the Apollo lunar landing sites from Earth.

How long might this take, in the worst case?

A model of the planets as black bodies is surprisingly accurate, except in one interesting case¹.

Physicists seem still to be taught about tensors as being, essentially, multidimensional arrays with special transformation rules which must be learned by rote. So I wrote a document which tries to present a more useful approach.

How easy are physical systems to predict?

You are playing cards with the Devil, the prize being your soul.