Ways in which geeks measure the world. An “emmett” – as in Dr Emmett Brown from Back to the Future – is a measure of exactly 1.21 gigawatts of power.
Emmett (power) : 1 emmet = 1.21 gigawatts, or the amount of power required to operated the flux capacitor in a modified DeLorean DMC-12. GeekDad [...]
1.21 gigawatts of fame? How are we meant to find power like that?
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 30 November, 2009 to the trends subset
You can travel no further back in time than 1955
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 18 August, 2009 to the comment subset
The Time Traveler’s Wife is the lastest in a long line of time travel themed movies, and according to physicist Dave Goldberg, makes for a more realistic representation of time travel than most of the (fiction) served to date.
But this is interesting, time travel is (theoretically) only possible to points in time where a time [...]
