April 2010
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Moon blocks cosmic rays →
Suppose you were stuck 30m under the ground, but you really wanted to know where the moon was (never mind why). What do you do?
Of course, you build a muon detector! You’d need quite a good one too, one that can determine the direction from which the muons came from. But still, beats digging yourself out of that hole. At least you’d learn some cool physics while you’re at it.
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PYRAF on Windows 7
Spent a good portion of this week trying to install PYRAF on my 64 bit windows 7 laptop. Of course, my laptop is set to dual boot into Ubuntu, but seeing as to how I rarely restart and boot into Ubuntu, I decided that its finally time to try out a virtual machine. I’ve finally succeeded, and here’s some documentation on the path I took.
Go to the system’s BIOS, ensure Intel...
Classical Astrology Problem →
This should be a mandatory homework problem for anyone taking physics.
Laser Punch! →