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I remember stumbling across fourmilab twenty years ago, and being instantly bowled over: So this is what a real website looks like. The breath and depth and var
by interfixus 10y ago
I remember stumbling across fourmilab twenty years ago, and being instantly bowled over: So this is what a real website looks like. The breath and depth and variety of its resources - all public domain, btw. - were astounding then, and have, amazingly, kept to that standard ever since. My favorite go-to site for two decades running.
- lolc 10y agoI remember reading about the "gravitaiton experiment" for your basement and now I'm pleasantly surprised to see the page was updated: "Bending Spacetime in the basement" https://www.fourmilab.ch/gravitation/foobar/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/gravitation/foobar/
- david-given 10y agoI keep getting surprised about how easy gravity is to demonstrate on the human scale. I should find a quiet room and actually do that experiment. Just because. Tangentially related fact: in flat space, a marble will orbit a bowling ball at a distance of about half a metre, with a period of about a day.
- _delirium 10y agoThe various projects and hobbies that go into that site are basically John Walker's full-time job for the past ~20 years as I understand it, since he retired from AutoDesk with a few tens of millions.