The UltraTech Zone

  The folks at MIT have made some serious progress in the search for the replacement material for silicon in transistors.   One of the materials being discussed, according to this ZDNet article, is gallium arsenide, even though there are some kinks to be worked out. The transistor technology is young, and researchers ...

While looking through some Wikipedia links concerning teachings about a Flat Earth, I came across the following website which expresses some criticism of the scientific method as it is often portrayed.  The site tries to emphasize that it is in no way opposed to science itself.  Here is an excerpt from the main page: Discussions of ...

One of the basic tenets of the scientific method is the validation of hypotheses and theories through experiments or experimental studies.  All of this, of course, is subject to the principle of reasoning.   This process has served us well over time, and has allowed us to gain a great understanding in a variety of areas of ...

For a variety of reasons, I have recently been re-engaged in a study of creation and the scientific support that exists for it.  In a subsequent post or three, I'll get into some of the problems with the evolutionary theories, and how they are very selective in what they use as scientific support.  Also, we'll spend some time looking at ...

Ah, the relativeness of size in space...   Just this week, on my Admin Off-Topic mailing list, someone posted the following link about the relative size of the planets in our solar system, as well as various stars. Really cool stuff.    I have always been excited by outer space, and it is interesting to how how little space we ...

He's extremely lucky to be alive, although he probably doesn't feel like that right now.   Apparently, the storm was a bit closer than he first believed. It's interesting to see the disconnect between the headline of the second story and the last paragraph where they indicate that it was highly unlikely that the lightning was attracted ...

So far, so good. We just watched the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery -- the first time a shuttle launch has occured on the 4th of July. http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/07/04/shuttle.launch/index.html   It was a wonderful sight to behold.   The kids really loved it. Here's to a successful mission and return.