Category Archives: Science

Fick’s Law is a principle of physics, and forms the basis and foundation of diffusion and more generally mass transfer. Diffusion is the action where molecules of dye in water spread out out from their source instead of staying concentrated … Continue reading →

The other day I was playing with some soap bubbles and I started thinking: what makes them pop? And furthermore, sometimes they don’t pop, instead they will shrink down to nothing. So what causes each of these different behaviors? Can … Continue reading →

Take a look at all these photos of city streets in the rain. I found them all on google image search and I am shamelessly hotlinking them: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 I was driving home … Continue reading →

Most people have heard of the Bacon number, the number of degrees of separation an actor has from Kevin Bacon, based of the Six Degrees of Separation idea. Well, this concept of looking up and assigning numbers based on the … Continue reading →

One of the more interesting skills learned as an engineer or a scientist is the art/skill (it’s really both) of being able to make reasonable order-of-magnitude estimates. Using a combination of knowledge, common sense, reasoning, intuition, and some quick hand … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago I wrote a post where I talked about taking the imaginary number i to it’s own power an infinite amount of times, essentially \(\LARGE{i^{i^{i^{i^{.^{.^.}}}}}}\). I showed numerically at least that it converges upon a single … Continue reading →