Neatorama Posts Tagged "measurement"
Measuring the Universe...

(vimeo link) We hear estimations of the size and age of the universe, but how do they figure these things out? Find out in this video from the Royal Observatory Greenwich. It's part of an exhibit called "Measuring the...

https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/24/measuring-the-universe/
The Garden Gnome Experiment...

The earth is not as round as your world globe makes it appear. It's actually a bit potato-shaped, which, along with other anomalies, affects how gravity is measured in different parts of the world.  A German company tha...

https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/18/the-garden-gnome-experiment/
Quantum Gravity Treatment of the Angel Density Problem...

by Anders Sandberg SANS/NADA, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden [EDITOR'S NOTE: we apologize for the lack of clear formatting,in this web version, of the mathematical formulae.] Abstract We derive up...

https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/01/quantum-gravity-treatment-of-the-angel-density-problem/
Wait Just a (Leap) Second...

At the end of June this year, those who do this sort of thing will add an extra second to the world's official clocks to keep us on the right track. This gets a bit detailed — which is where the fun is! — but in sho...

https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/23/wait-just-a-leap-second/
Scientists Measure Shortest Interval of Time Ever...

German scientists hit electrons with light and the...  ...e assumption, and this is what happened: Their measurements revealed that electrons from different atomic orb...

https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/scientists-measure-shortest-interval-of-time-ever/
10 Modern Measurements

John Madden of GeekDad relates the story of how th...  ...Dad relates the story of how the 'smoot' became a measurement of distance: Way back in 1958, the MIT chapter...  ...in Massachusetts, coining the smoot as a unit of measurement in the process – one smoot equaling five feet,...  ...Madden then passes...

https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/23/10-modern-measurements/
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