Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. —Sun Tzu The card game of war is typically considered a children’s game, as it requires no skill to play and minimal understanding of playing card relationships in a standard deck. With skill eliminated as a factor in determining the outcome, it is often assumed that war is simply a random game of chance. Yet the game cannot be purely determined by chance, as the initial conditions of the game must have some bearing on the final state. The existence of random factors in the game do not allow for the claim…
The Science Creative Quarterly
From October, 2006
COFFEE A LA MODE
Similar visually to the mandala images, these are cups of coffee vibrating at (top) and near (bottom) a normal mode frequency – coffee a la mode. The resonance phenomenon shown in these coffee cup images is similar to Cymatics and Chladni patterns on a circular plate. Although the lines in Chaladni figures are nodes, the bright areas in the coffee images are anti-nodes. (The coffee cups are vibrating at approximately 20Hz). These coffee images were created for a photo competition.
SPINAL INJURY: SO MANY WAYS TO STRIKE A CHORD
A hot summer afternoon in July 1994. Andy heads down the woodlands on his mountain bike, eager to get home and beat the heat with a few beers. A rainy day in March 1998, Stephanie stretches her legs in her Ford Explorer waiting to reach home after shopping for school clothes for her children. A bright morning in June 1999. Terry sets off to explore the skies in his paraglider. A sunny day in March 2003. Paul revs up his bike’s engine hoping to join his fiancée and kids for the weekend. Disparate images from the lives of different people.…
DALE PECK REVIEWS EINSTEIN’S LATEST
Pedestrian crap. Albert Einstein’s “General Theory of Relativity” (Annalen der Physik, Leipzig: Verlan Von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916) is crap. It’s oblique, it’s opaque, it’s bloated with transparent effort. Salted, sanctimonious effort. I literally fidget turning the pages. Einstein is the worst physicist of his generation. Yet it goes deeper. He also grovels to the reader–God, it’s hackneyed–trying to ingratiate himself with “quaint” turns of the phrase, “curved” regurgitations on space-time. It’s more pandering than this Serbian nationalism fad. A decade ago, he shoved that tortured Special Relativity onto us. And it was stupid, just plain stupid. Complication masking inanity,…