Recent content by DragonFire

From reading about the permeation of gasses through polymer seals, I am led to believe that given two identical sealed chambers, one containing a vacuum and the other pressurized perfectly dry nitrogen, water vapor would permeate through the seals and into the chambers at the same rate. This...

Good morning. Mechanical engineering is my profession; however, I have a strong interest in physics, mathematics, and the history and philosophical underpinnings of science and technology. I am a tinkerer, both in the sense that I like to build things (and take things apart to understand how...