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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Unveiling Pythagoras: How Circle-Based Area Transformations Reveal the Truth

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I recently had a discussion about the Pythagorean theorem and how to understand it better. I realized that the role of the circle as a funda...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

The meaning of the Hubble constant: a Universe in Rotation

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In the 1910-1920s, various astronomers discovered that the spectral lines frequencies in the emission spectra of galaxies were prevalently r...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Law of sines, chords and similar triangles

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Recently, I picked up my pencil and notebook and started to draw circles and triangles again. Swiftly, by drawing similar triangles circumsc...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

It From Bit or Bit From It? FQXi essay

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2013 FQXi essay contest is announced . Topic "It From Bit or Bit From It?" This topic is somehow connected with the 2011 topic ...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Dreaming in Geneva - FQXi essay

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The theme for this year's FQXi contest topic is "Questioning the Foundations: Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions are Wrong?...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Auguste Bravais - 201st birthday anniversary

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On August 23, 1811, during a relatively calm period of Napoleon's reign, Aurélie-Adelaïde Thomé, spouse of physician François-Victor Bra...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Louis de Broglie - 120th birthday anniversary

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Exactly 120 years ago, on August 15th, 1892, Louis de Broglie was born in Dieppe, a little town on the coast of Normandy. De Broglie is one...