PinnedGhislain FournyNewcomb’s Bitcoins: Schrödinger’s Other CatThere are simple concepts out there that you think you understand… until you are asked to define them. Time is one of them. And when…4 min read·Jan 5, 2023--2--2
Ghislain FournyWhy Captain Picard Sticks to the Prime Directive: the Red-Eyed MonksI like puzzles a lot. There is one, though, that earned my utmost appreciation, be it for the beauty of the reasoning involved, for the…6 min read·Aug 6, 2022----
Ghislain FournyWill History (Of Physics) Repeat Itself?End of the nineteenth century. The feeling has never been so high that we are close to having a complete understanding of the laws of…4 min read·Jun 24, 2022--1--1
Ghislain FournyDatabases Explained To My GrandmaWhen can you tell that you really understand something? A very good test is to try and explain it to people with no knowledge in the area…5 min read·May 26, 2022----
Ghislain FournyBig Data: Are You Ready For Fungible Data?We are in the middle of a revolution in the database world. In the press, you might have heard of it referred to as Big Data. We are…5 min read·Mar 2, 2022----
Ghislain FournyTime Travel: How Big Is The Universe — Really?September 23, 2011. It made the news within just minutes: Neutrinos emitted from Geneva, Switzerland, had been allegedly observed to reach…4 min read·Feb 4, 2022----
Ghislain FournyRelativity Theory for Non-Physicists(Original date: September 15, 2014)4 min read·Jan 13, 2022----
