Built on Facts
An exploration of physics and the quest to understand our world.
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Matt Springer is a graduate student of physics at Texas A&M; university. He is also an occasional writer and tinkerer, and he is probably too curious for his own good.
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Recent Posts
- Period of a Pendulum
- The Higher Math of Briscoe v. Virginia?
- The Difficulty of Teaching Magnets
- Sunday Function
- Raising the Burj Khalifa
- Owl City and the Slow Earth
- Sunday Function
- Ringing in Kepler's Year
- Pink and Cheap Is No Way To Go Through Space
- Cross-Eyed Stars
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- Anonymous on Period of a Pendulum
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- Nathan Myers on The Higher Math of Briscoe v. Virginia?
- Anonymous Coward on The Difficulty of Teaching Magnets
- Uncle Al on Period of a Pendulum
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Physics/Math Blogs
- Cocktail Party Physics
- Cosmic Variance
- Mass
- Physicality of Words
- Swans on Tea
- The Mind of Dr. Pion
- Uncertain Principles
- Shores of the Dirac Sea
- Arcsecond
My Other-Than-Science Reading (variable, very incomplete)
About
This site takes its name from a quotation by the great physicist James Clerk Maxwell:
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
But data’s hardly the only interesting thing in physics. There’s the experiments that produce the data, the theories that describe what we see, the beautiful results of those theories, and the promise of further exploration and discovery stretching out before us.
As for me personally: I'm Matt Springer, I’m a graduate student of physics at Texas A&M; University. With a bit of luck and a lot of work, this will result in a Ph.D. in a few years. But this site’s here for you, so feel free to email or comment any time with your suggestions.
