I just looked back at my New Year's Resolutions. I have to admit that I'm a bit behind on my goals regarding how research was going. Anyway, it was good to have a goal. I'll still work for that. As Albert Einstein said, "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be callled research". And that's true. We have a good idea of things to try, things to work out, things to cross of the list, and sometimes, something little can end up working. Sometimes, we inch forward. Most of the time, we angstrom forward. But look at AE over there. He would have fit right in in Seattle. What with the hair, the eco-friendly threads, and the minimal carbon footprint of his transport, we would have loved him. At any rate. I've achieved the other New Year's goals like an ace. Like . . . have fun skiing in Colorado, have fun flying around in a float plane in Seattle, and have fun in the desert relaxing by the pool. It's important to have goals to work towards.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Ahh, it's been a great four months.
I just looked back at my New Year's Resolutions. I have to admit that I'm a bit behind on my goals regarding how research was going. Anyway, it was good to have a goal. I'll still work for that. As Albert Einstein said, "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be callled research". And that's true. We have a good idea of things to try, things to work out, things to cross of the list, and sometimes, something little can end up working. Sometimes, we inch forward. Most of the time, we angstrom forward. But look at AE over there. He would have fit right in in Seattle. What with the hair, the eco-friendly threads, and the minimal carbon footprint of his transport, we would have loved him. At any rate. I've achieved the other New Year's goals like an ace. Like . . . have fun skiing in Colorado, have fun flying around in a float plane in Seattle, and have fun in the desert relaxing by the pool. It's important to have goals to work towards.
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There you go, proof you aren't a scientist. Real scientists use SI units, which the ångström most certainly is not :) Back in my day we talked about tenths of a nanometer and were happy to have even that much. If we really believe Einstein, then we should either be measuring ångström sized distances in attoseconds (about 3x the width of a hydrogen atom (given the usual accepted cut off on the electronic probability cloud), or measuring time in gigameters (there being about 18 Gm in a minute).
In reality, I suspect ångströms are unpopular for for the same reason the µm always gets called a "micron", us USians are all too lazy to figure out how to type them on our keyboards :).
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