dyrwen ([info]dyrwen) wrote,
@ 2007-01-16 16:00:00
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Current location:basement of the library

The Sun Rocks; No Duh
So I was reading Qwantz, aka Dinosaur Comics, today and discovered Ryan North, the creator, musing about how much light it would take to throw a dude into a wall. And sure enough it only took a day for his fans to throw science back at him about how much it would take.

Behold the Light Cannon Equations.

From his web site:
"Alex Rea and Chris Berry to the rescue! Stating their assumptions clearly, and with a judicious application of Science, including the rare Stefan-Boltzmann Constant, we discover that we only need the light emitted by 4.7x10^-15 of the total surface area of the sun in order to throw a dude into a wall! This is excellent. This means our sun is capable of throwing 2.13x10^14 dudes into a wall at the same time! Our sun rules!"

Ah, how I adore science. Found a poetic form today adopted from Jacques Ben's "3-1-4-1-5" pattern where the syllables in the successive verses follows pi to the 13th decimal place. I think a partial example is done by Ian Monk in Sestanagrammatina for Michelle Grangaud. It's a rather neat way to use mathematics in conjunction with structural poetics. I'm trying to find one that'd work alright for internet-webcam/esque kinds structure. I may have to settle for some divided variant of the speed of light, or the equation that results in its' amount, to discover a structure that may better encompass the underlying fabric of the content being discussed.

But yeah, anyway, I'm up the 6 page point and coded part of my philosophical ramblings I put into the piece at work today. We'll see whether I can figure out a way to start reading shite soon.




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