Totally not about Zeitgeist 0.3.1
Monday, January 11th, 2010Yesterday we pushed out version 0.3.1 of the Zeitgeist engine. I am pretty hyped about this, but since I try to avoid posting too many release announcements on my blog I will talk about something completely unrelated in stead. Read the Zeitgeist 0.3.1 announcement in the Gnome Announce archives.
Big Numbers
As we where talking at the dinner table today I asked Liv (just 4y) “What’s the BIGGEST number you know?”. It was obviously that she enjoyed getting that question, and I almost felt I could look inside her mind as she was contemplating it:
With utmost self satisfaction (clearly believing that no one could possibly think of a bigger number) she replied “As big as the TABLE!”.
Gravity or No Such Thing?
Most intrigued by Verlinde’s claim that Gravity is nothing but an emergent force arising from entropy. It has everything a good theory should have: simple, and based on some novel ideas. I really really hope that he is right, because if he is then it might just be the biggest scientific breakthrough (in theoretical physics at least) I am going to see in my lifetime. His claims has one other trait that worries me though – when things look too good to be true, most people, who doesn’t live in a fairy tale, will know that they are indeed too good to be true. Follow the buzz on Google blog search.
