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#500 – Two and a Half Orders of Magnitude

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500 episodes of goofing around, including during our only in person meeting

Episode 500! About 10 years in! (our first show was August 10th, 2010)

 

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  1. AFAIK Oliver Heaviside rationalised Maxwell’s experimental equations into the four equations that we all know and love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside#Innovations_and_discoveries. Heaviside was talented, Maxwell was gentry and so Heaviside got naming rights on a step function, Maxwell got naming rights on … well one of the all encompassing rules of physics. Heaviside also had my heart for getting amongst it, and not worrying too much about analytical correctness of the maths:

    “Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?”

    Anyway, hope that entertains as well as educates… have fun!

    • Thanks for pointing that out 🙂
      There are many names in the field of science that have not received proper recognition. Oliver Lodge, Joseph Swan, Chandra Bose, etc. etc.

  2. Not to be pedantic but two and half orders of magnitude equals 316 because its a logarithmic scale (10^2.5). Congratulations on 500 episodes and hope you reach many more orders of magnitude

    • I thought that too, but then orders of magnitude are supposed to be a rough approximation of a large quantity (in many contexts) and the Log10 of 500 = 2.69 ~ 2.5 so it kinda makes sense too

  3. Following Dave’s argument, Australia isn’t a self-sustaining colony to this day. 😉

    Congratulations on the 0.5k episode!

    • Hunh, didn’t see that link come through before. Interesting though! So all you’re saying is I have to purchase those millions of dollars of equipment and stick them in my house (or on a very large desk)….and we’d have at home chip fabbing! 😀

      Also, I did take 3 semesters of Japanese, but alas, it’s all gone. So I doubt I’d be a good fit for working with them.

  6. cheers to the 500, i did listen to a lot of them, its kind of my favourite radio show. Thanks a lot for putting all the effort into it and helping us stay up to date.

    oh segway into up to date, rumors about maxim and analog 🙂