What is a second? You could do the whole "one one thousand" thing and not be terribly far off, and that might be OK for calculating things like how fast you're driving on the highway or how much you should get paid for a certain amount of time worked…
_This month’s Learnin’ Corner, courtesy of Motherboard's granddad Vice, is an explanation of topological matter in optical lattices by University of Pittsburgh associate professor of physics W. Vincent Liu, whose paper “Topological Matter in Optical…
_Marcus Hutter is a professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University in Canberra. He’s most notable for his work in the field of artificial intelligence theory, which is like philosophy with way more math. He…
_Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf is a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research concerns the interface of theoretical nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology._ We think that the universe started with…
