In one of his Maths books the author Martin Gardner talks about the following thought experiment. Imagine that you make contact with a being from some far part of the galaxy and communicate with him...
If all motion is relative then is it just as valid to maintain that the sun goes round the earth as it is to maintain that the earth goes round the sun?
When a Sun journalist exposed the lack of security in the House of Commons, it was the paper's Managing Editor who was interviewed about it on the news. Now, whenever any other newspaper gets a great...
Here's a controversial one (which I raise for the purposes of discussion and not because I necessarily agree with it). Given that it seems to be agreed that animals on their way to, and also in, the...
Past generations have always regarded as normal particular practices or beliefs which later generations came to see as immoral. For example, slavery was once regarded as acceptable by most people. Or,...
I've never watched the Ali G show- I've just seen parts of it here and there- so perhaps this explains my confusion over the show. But what I'd like to know is why he is so popular when the Black and...
Every time I'm in an art gallery I feel sorry for the attendants there who sit in chairs staring blankly at the wall. Is this the most boring job there is- or does anyone have experience of one that...
(I mentioned this in a reply to another question but I thought it may be worth asking in its own right.) I was recently watching an episode of the Simpsons in which there was a re-telling of the story...
I've read that the Beatles had 17 number ones in the UK. One of their early singles- "Please Please Me" - apparently reached number two. But I recently heard that at the time this particular single...
Question inspired by the Stepford Wives: suppose that, in the future, robotics has been sufficiently developed and it has become possible to create robots who are virtually indistinguishable from...
I recently spent a holiday in Newcastle and travelled about on the Metro quite a bit. The total amount spent on this was in the region of ?8 and yet there were no ticket barriers and nobody ever...
