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As far as I know, the anecdote of the windshield is associated with Richard Feynman not Oppenheimer.

Erwin, the mistress, and his wife shared a house. It was a harem. William Marston, the creator of Wonder Woman, had a similar arrangement.

I just watched a program (video) on this subject last night. The Amercian Chestnut was apparently very productive was a significant...

You are conflating mathematics and physics. Pure mathematics is not dependent on the size of atoms. That circle you speak of does not...

Consider a sphere and cube with the same center and volume. As the number of dimensions increases the volume of their intersection goes...

Suppose any two volumes with one properly contained within the other. As the number of dimensions increases the relative volume of the...

I host games here and there (darts, cards) and I keep running up against discrepancies for "what should happen in scenario X". My...

Louis Pasteur (of the vaccination fame) separated racemic mixture of tartaric acid by drying it out and patiently sorting crystals under...

The local Villa Kitty has 808 housecats.

With unlimited resources, one billion housecats, would require something like 100 million houses and carers. That would solve the...

One may often read that mathematical knots (closed curves) can't exist in a 4D Euclidean space. More precisely, they would all "fall...

9x + 0.9x + 0.09x ... = 10x But I didn't figure that out in advance. The data is vague, there's only one significant figure, so I...

Each female per year produces about 18 offspring. She will continue to do this for some number of years. Grandparents and older are so...

10x per year.

After thirteen years five quadrillion housecats would cover the surface of the Earth. Further reproduction would be inhibited as the...