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pand, providing more prey for the foxes, whose population will also ex- pand. The foxes will prey on the rabbits, reducing the r ...
and after the next generation (and every subsequent generation) there will be 50 percent rabbits. Other values of x drift toward ...
the climate between periods of benign temperature and ice ages. Climate f lipping is one of the reasons that many scientists are ...
language of probability rather than the less-intuitive language of Lebesgue measure. Technically, the temperature sliding down ...
11 The Raw Materials The Importance of Being Earnest In early 1996, the journal Social Text published an article by Professor Al ...
Sokal found such a view abhorrent—as would most scientists, whose job it is to investigate reality. As he put it, “I’m a stodgy ...
tion. The man was James Prescott Joule, the woman his wife, and they were in the Alps on their honeymoon. Joule had devoted a su ...
probability: systems are more likely to proceed from ordered to disordered states, simply because there are a lot more disordere ...
rectly observe a fourth spatial dimension, because the process of observ- ing a fourth dimension involves the use of the electro ...
ones, the faster ones slow down (losing heat) and the slower ones speed up (gaining heat). Let’s assume that 1 unit of heat is t ...
cause thermonuclear fusion, and a star is born. If the star is large enough, an even more dramatic entropy decrease is in the of ...
because we are confining the ice cube molecules substantially. Their lo- cation and velocity is highly restricted, whereas an in ...
but Linda realizes that they are not all destined to remain so). A final or- der is imposed when she sorts them by color. I have ...
Left Right Left Right # Pairs in Loafer Loafer Sneaker Sneaker Correct Box LB SB SB SB 1 SB LB LB LB 0 SB LB LB SB 0 SB LB SB LB ...
Boltzmann, the architect of statistical mechanics, who realized that when one talks about order and disorder, about the number o ...
This path is traveled not just in the physical sciences, but in the life sci- ences as well; it describes both the atom and the ...
Over the course of the next decade or so, astrophysical measurements should reveal the future of the universe: whether it is des ...
her pitch for help. We know the holographic image of Princess Leia is just a holographic image, but we can conjecture about whet ...
might concern itself with the princess, with the next line on Princess Leia appearing on page 8,417,363. The Blind Holographer I ...
NOTES See http://skepdic.com/sokal.html. This is an excellent summary of the Sokal hoax. The Skeptic’s Dictionary has a lot of ...
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