Recent content by SHAMSAEL

It doesn't matter what's inside the balloon since what we define as reality, time and space are the surface of the balloon.

The sex differentiation of animals goes farther down the evolutionary line than you might have imagined. On a related note, there was an article here on physorg a few months back about a breed of flower in north america, i think, that is in the process of evolving into a two-sex reproductive...

I've wondered about this, for a while: Is it correct to assume that, given enough time, any orbiting body will become tidally locked?

In short, modern flash memory actually stores electrons, switches aren't used. I stand corrected. As for the entropy of my books, you've only compounded my concerns :(

It should be noted that the unformatted 8gb memory stick DOES NOT contain anything resembling 8 billion 0000 0000s. I think that, even if every bit on the stick were to have a 0 or 1 stored on it, the difference in entropy would be practically undetectable, since I'm almost certain that a...

It would also be worth mentioning that the 50 billion years it would take for this to happen is longer than the current age of the universe.

First of all, over large distances, interference does become apparent. In my experience with lower quality pen type laser pointers, just shining the beam to the other end of a large room there's a noticible difference between the size of the dot on the wall and the width of the beam at its...