If you have two minutes, I think you'll find it well-spent by the end of this clip. Recommendation: After you click Play, click the full screen button (lower right corner, next to the YouTube logo).
Some discussion over on Harvard's Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations site, filed under Pendulum Waves. It is claimed that the first one of these cool things was built by Ernst Mach, in about 1867.
(h/t: KK, via email)
Now, what I'm interested in is yet far beyond that scale. That's the so-called Planck scale, and what happens there. So that's really the scale of ten to the minus thirty-five meters.
You could also characterize it as the scale for which you can still apply for funding.
-- Renate Loll, "on the Quantum Origins of Space and Time"
"Once all this stuff can be recorded, there's going to be a lot more of this snooping around by reporters and bloggers."
You mean, like this?
Mercy me, we wouldn't want anyone snooping into what the cops are doing, would we?
(pic. sources: Wikipedia and Brooklyn Bodega)
I guarantee you, Sean, he might be thinking about taking a few pitches here.
-- Rick Sutcliffe*
* Although he'll probably try to say it was Aaron Hill (Braves at Phils, ESPN, a few minutes ago).
Yes, this is what happens every time Ross talks about sex.
Watching Dan Savage make Ross squirm for an hour is pretty entertaining, though.
