"At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense." - Carl Sagan

Ongoing Projects

The Pendulum Project

Experiment to show use of computers in data acquisition. Plus some basic physics. Link is here but this is still in progress.

The Nerf Projectile

At work I'm constantly bombarded by nerf projectiles. I've decided to fight back. This is an attempt to make a high-powered (as these things go) nerf gun using a 2-Liter coke bottle, an aquarium pump, a hollow plastic tube, and other scrounged parts.

Links

• The Nine Planets
• From Stargazers to Starships
• How Do Bullets Fly?
• Philosophy and Foundations of Physics