The NYT has recently run two articles (one, two) on the fear that exists (among some) that the Large Hadron Collider — when started — will destroy the earth through the creation of a black hole. Interestingly, this was exactly the topic my undergraduate thesis (in STS) was on, except instead of being about the [...]
April 17, 2008
Calculus and Chaos Theory
On the same blog, God Plays Dice, I learned two important things today:
(1) The Napkin Ring Problem, which basically says if you take a sphere, and cut out a cylinder from the center (and take off the two caps at the top and the bottom of the sphere), the volume of the remaining solid will [...]
