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[catastrophism] [relativity] [babylon5] [tcl/tk scripts]

currently available items

Velikovskian Catastrophism, Saturnism
http://access.digex.com/~medved/Catastrophism.html
http://www.ames.net/aeon/
http://www.ames.net/aeon/saturnm.htm
http://earth.ics.uci.edu:8080/origins/faqs-catastrophism.html
- Aeon home page image analysis
- Review of talk.origins discussion of Grubaugh model of polar alignment
- Preliminary report of status of discussion of Grubaugh's "synchronous retrograde orbit" model
Relativity
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~physics/sci.physics/faq/relativity.html
- Comparison of relativity to simple analytic geometry
- Another comparison of relativity to geometry, using football yardage
- Unaccelerated (or 3-observer) twin paradox, with minkowski diagrams
- Essay on why FTL implies time travel, even if you use a "hyperjump" or other method that doesn't cross the intervening space.
- Summary of a long-running usenet discussion of the relativity of simultaneity.
- Relativistic signal rendezvous problem
- Spaceship and spacestation gedanken showing why one doesn't need a prefered reference frame
- Demonstration why length contraction, and not expansion, is required to make lightspeed=c in all inertial frames.
- misc diagrams and notes
Babylon 5 station physics
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/universe/station-1.html
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/universe/station-map-1.html
- Diagrams of starfury launch, from both inertial and non-inertial points of view.
- Posting about the dynamics of falling from the center of the B5 garden.
- On simulation of a properly rotating starfield outside the the C&C window; a description of the basic problem, and a followon discussion.
- Starfury alignment puzzle.
tcl/tk scripts
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/tcl-faq/top.html
- Doing presentations on a Linux laptop with tcl/tk
- A very simple drawing tool (with source code in tcl/tk)
- "weak" tkdiff (stripped down version of tkdiff)
- A very simple cross reference browsing tool in tcl/tk
- A very simple editor in tcl/tk
- Interactive map display in tcl/tk
- "Uniquify" lists in "bare" tcl; usenet postings.

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