Category: Paul Hofma
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And Nothing Else (Anti-)Matters
Read more: And Nothing Else (Anti-)Matters“And now, puny generic sci-fi superhero, I shall charge up my hyper-flux-capacitated antimatter bomb, and annihilate your entire planet! Lawrence, cue the evil-laugh tape!” Anti-matter (or, alternatively) antimatter is an age-old favorite power source among writers of scifi and superhero comics alike, which is probably why most people you’ll talk with will at least admit…
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Passionately Curious: What the Hell Is… Evolution?
Read more: Passionately Curious: What the Hell Is… Evolution?What do you mean, “not that kind of evolution”? I am a scientist, and a fairly broadly educated one at that, and so I can have a tendency to forget that a lot of things I take for granted are, in reality, quite complicated for most of us. Like, you know, quantum mechanics. Or much…
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Passionately Curious: So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
Read more: Passionately Curious: So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish“It’s the end of the world as we know it – and I feel fine.” – R.E.M. It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine). As Chaucer (reportedly) said rather long ago: “All good things must come to an end.” It seems that this is indeed the case for…
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Passionately Curious – Taking Flight
Read more: Passionately Curious – Taking FlightWell, that’s my article for today. Enjoy the rest of the week guys. I’m pulling your leg, of course. Today I’ll be taking a look into how the hell a giant lump of metal, weighing in at around 200 tons, can take off and just chill up high in the atmosphere pretending it’s a bird.…
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Passionately Curious – An Interstaller Investigation
Read more: Passionately Curious – An Interstaller InvestigationAs you may well know by now, I’m a huge fan of the natural sciences. Usually, I use the space allotted to me here to try and explain some interesting bit of science in more simple terms, so that those of us who aren’t as big on the giant formulas and heavy textbooks can…
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