Recent content by Swamp Thing

Assuming that the simulation is working correctly, there does seem to be a conflict. If I understand correctly, in the statistical picture, the thread of water within the pore is being pushed from both ends by water atoms bumping into the pore mouth. There are fewer bumps on the high-solute...

In this talk Professor Simon describes the connection between knots of string and certain elementary particles, and how this connection could enable quantum computations.

An underrated mathematical concept known as "integer complexity"

This letter in PhysRevLett describes molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the underlying factors that drive osmosis. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.024501 Copy on Internet Archive ...

Maybe they were friends. "Why don't you come over and crash at my place?"

Millikan's experimental confirmation of Einstein's photoelectric effect & equation

History of the scanning electron microscope

All aboard as I attempt to simulate the artistic process of paper marbling. The algorithm is based on the paper 'Mathematical Marbling' by S. Lu, A. Jaffer, ...

TIL that there is a species of fish (common name : bogue) with the scientific name Boops Boops. Sadly, it's pronounced bow-ops.

A marine chopper transports a plane on a sling, refueling mid air on the way

Ferrocell, an awesome magnetic field viewer, magnetic field perception is undoubtedly better than any other system. It's easy to make, but be careful, ferrof...

The Wikipedia page on the Hall effect says: I probably don't have the math ability or the time to master solid state physics in all its glory, but I am hoping to get to a heuristic picture of the P-type Hall effect that, at the very least, won't be "not even wrong". My attempt is as follows...

Henry A. Rowland is known for his pioneering work on the manufacture of high quality diffraction gratings. A less known experiment of his is the demonstration that a mechanically rotating charged disk produces a magnetic field, equivalent to that of a current in a similarly shaped flat coil...