How close is nano-computing?
In September, Sunny Bains wrote Why Nano still macro? and since then I’m thinking about it once in a while. Recently, a study in the University of California showed how to create a demodulator using...
View ArticleSerial thinking
I wonder why the human race is so tied up with serial thinking… We are so limited that even when we think in parallel, each parallel line is serial! What? Take the universe. Every single particle in...
View ArticleBook: Flat and Curved Space Times
The first time I read this book was during my special relativity course at university. I couldn’t understand a thing the teacher was saying (probably because his explanations were always: “you won’t be...
View ArticleSilly project of the week: molecule dynamics
This week’s project is a molecular dynamics simulation. Don’t get too excited, it’s not using any of the state-of-art algorithms nor is assembling 3-dimensional structures of complex proteins. I began...
View ArticleCalliper, chalks and the axe!
Years ago, when I was still doing physics university in São Paulo, a friend biochemist stated one of the biggest truths about physics: Physicist is the one that measures with a calliper, marks with...
View ArticleAd infinitum
Quality is fundamental in any job, and software is no exception. Although fairly good software is relatively easy to do, really good software is an art that few can truly reach. While in some places...
View ArticlePhasers anyone?
Star trek seems a long way and yet, a few news had made into the headlines exposing some achievements that might lead us closer to Roddenberry’s universe. Some research just found anti-matter in an...
View Article2010 – Year of what?
Ever since 1995 I hear the same phrase, and ever since 2000 I stopped listening. It was already the year of Linux in 95 for me, so why bother? But this year is different, and Linux is not the only...
View ArticleCopy cat
Shaun was yet another physicist, working for yet another western country on yet another doomsday machine. Even that being far from the last world war, governments still had excuses to spend exorbitant...
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