Did The Past Really Happen?
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Published 2015-02-06
*Sources and extra info below!!*
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Humorous/interesting videos about how future archeologists might interpret us:
VIDEO: “Beatles 3000”: • Beatles 3000
VIDEO: “Neil deGrasse Tyson On Manhattanhenge”: • Neil deGrasse Tyson On Manhattanhenge
Toto: allanellenberger.com/toto-finds-a-home-at-hollywoo…
“highway” vs “freeway”: sgtalcastro.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-difference-…
why are old things so often underground?:
goo.gl/u8SFFw
www.archaeological.org/education/askexpertsfaq#faq…
“Motel of Mysteries” (great book I remember from when I was a kid): www.amazon.co.uk/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp…
Last Thursdayism:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis
www.last-thursday.org/
Occam’s Razor: math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/occam.html
Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword: philosophynow.org/issues/46/Newtons_Flaming_Laser_…
other razors: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_(philosophy)
Interpreting the past (including us, when we become “the past”):
www.heritagedaily.com/2014/01/the-archaeology-of-t…
www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist&civ/chapters/01HIST…
bigthink.com/videos/how-will-future-historians-see…
www.albany.edu/~scifraud/data/sci_fraud_3486.html
This American Life on people in the future: www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/16…
The 15th century wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century#Significant_peo…
conservation of energy: www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/187240/conserva…
history of perpetual motion: www.hp-gramatke.net/perpetuum/english/page0020.htm
Why old computers and consoles turn yellow: www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/189
the Second Law of Thermodynamics: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/seclaw.…
Heat Death of the universe: www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae181.cfm
Good entropy resources:
entropysimple.oxy.edu/content.htm
• Entropy
physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/05/elusive-entro…
www.askamathematician.com/2011/12/q-why-does-the-e…
www.learner.org/courses/chemistry/visuals/visuals.…