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Tuesday Sep 18, 2007 #
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weight:135lbs
Still felt pretty crappy today.
On the bright side, I am slowly making my way through the biography of Einstein, maybe one-third done, which is much farther than I thought I would get (my initial prediction, had I made one, would have put one chapter as a respectable accomplishment).
Along with some interesting stuff, and some physics that I can't pretend to understand, imagine my surprise to run into a neighbor of mine, well, not exactly a neighbor of mine, rather a neighbor of the g. I'm talking, of course, about h, Planck's constant, apparently one of the other famous constants in the universe.
And when I think about h, not that I have thought that much about h, three things strike me:
-- h is really old. Not just in that it was discovered over a hundred years ago, but the fact that it's really being around forever. Whereas the g, a 21st-century discovery, can only trace its roots back to the 1940s.
-- h is really small. 6.626068 × 10-34 m2 kg / s. Makes the g seem almost obese (even if it doesn't have any superscripts).
-- and, they're still not sure exactly what the value of h is. h must really envy the g, it just has to get on the scale each day.
All this makes me wonder, is there an f? And what's it like?
On the bright side, I am slowly making my way through the biography of Einstein, maybe one-third done, which is much farther than I thought I would get (my initial prediction, had I made one, would have put one chapter as a respectable accomplishment).
Along with some interesting stuff, and some physics that I can't pretend to understand, imagine my surprise to run into a neighbor of mine, well, not exactly a neighbor of mine, rather a neighbor of the g. I'm talking, of course, about h, Planck's constant, apparently one of the other famous constants in the universe.
And when I think about h, not that I have thought that much about h, three things strike me:
-- h is really old. Not just in that it was discovered over a hundred years ago, but the fact that it's really being around forever. Whereas the g, a 21st-century discovery, can only trace its roots back to the 1940s.
-- h is really small. 6.626068 × 10-34 m2 kg / s. Makes the g seem almost obese (even if it doesn't have any superscripts).
-- and, they're still not sure exactly what the value of h is. h must really envy the g, it just has to get on the scale each day.
All this makes me wonder, is there an f? And what's it like?