Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector, by Lillian de la Torre. A collection of short stories narrated by James Boswell, in which Dr Samuel Johnson solves crimes...
It's not a matter of "forming". The photon sphere is just a particular set of coordinates in the metric, with significance for stable orbits. If the...
It's not clear to me what you think the problem with measuring distance might be.
Are you just saying that a point has different dimensionality to a...
It just strikes me as interesting (and symptomatic of the societal pressure I mentioned earlier) that the "child-free" seem to be expected to have a...
Oh, for pity's sake. There's actually a whole spectrum of knowledge lying between a full-referenced dissertation and a supposition, and I for one am...
My e-reader must be populated by about 50% classics, 30% stuff I've downloaded while away from home, and 20% stuff not available in print. Of the 30%...
No useful evolutionary purpose to such a thing, really. Species are driven to have sex, certainly, but until fifty years ago whatever happened after...
Some of us do actually fact-check ourselves before posting - but it gets tedious to weigh in immediately with evidence for things that are likely to...
Generally when people say "This is untestable" they mean "This is untestable" not "This will always be untestable". Because if they meant the latter,...
My previous link referred to unit sales - both numbers and revenue are increasing according to those figures. (Swift's earlier graphs were based on a...