Surrey Physics Blog

I am reading The Theory That Would Not Die by Sharon Betsch McGrayne. It is a book on Bayes’ Theorem. Bayes’ Theorem is simple but a bit too subtle to describe in a couple of snappy sentences in a blog post, so I won’t describe it here. You can check out the Wikipedia page if you […]

This is the post with the link to FAQ page of the American Donkey and Mule Society’s site. That was not a sentence I thought I would be typing 20 minutes ago, but science takes you everywhere. There is an entertaining website Snopes, which examines urban truths and tries to assess whether they are true […]

Molten lava and diet coke have something in common: too much gas. See here for gas escaping from lava, and throwing molten rock into the air, and see just for fun, because it is just great. They are using simply bottles of Diet Coke and a brand of mint called Mentos. That’s all.