Sunday, December 12, 2010

Time travel is possible

A group of young scientists and master students proved in practice that time travel is possible.
Myth of time travel originates long ago in urban legends, but has never been proven before. Also Dougles Adams mentioned similar travels in the trilogy, however those travels were in space.
(Image from http://www.crystalinks.com/timetravel.html)

Friday, December 10, 2010

Why you should not put a cat in the microwave oven

The heating effect of the microwaves comes from the resonance frequency. The wavelengths of the microwave is close to the wavelength, how the water molecules vibrate. And the waves pass small energy packets to the water molecules, speeding up their movement, and this produces heat.


So why is this dangerous for the cat? Read more if you want to know.
(image source: http://www.gifbin.com/981675)

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

What about free energy?

There are many sites describing and selling "free energy" sources using strong static magnets only. I do not want to bust this myth, and say that a device like that can not work, and can not actually transform energy.  However the sad fact according to the current laws of physic is, that nothing in the world is for absolutely free. Those who claim inventing free energy are stating inventing perpetuum mobile.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The ultimate perpetuum mobile

This joke might reveal what the contradiction of perpetuum mobile is.
The rabbi is asked one day:
- Is it true that if I let fall a slice of bread with butter on the top, it will fall on the side with the butter?
- Yes, answers the rabbi.
- And is it true that if a cat is falling it always falls on the feet?
- Yes.
- So what happens if I let fall a cat standing on the top of the butter bread?
But really, what happens? Let's suppose that both statements are true. Both items should fall on the side where they are glued together. So the answer is simple: it should never fall, and keep flying. And we can say that this is the greatest discovery of all times.

Monday, December 6, 2010

The connection between weather and umbrella

This is somewhat a Murphy theory, but believe me, it is based on many daily observations. The equation is simple:


If you have an umbrella with, that implies no raining that day.


Thus you can influence the weather: if you don't want to have rain, just take the umbrella with :)

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Roll or fold in handbag?

With the appearance of low cost airlines nowadays many travelers decide for the easy way of traveling taking only one handbag. To pack a bag for 7 - 10 days is not an easy task, because usually only one hand luggage of limited amount is allowed. There are many different thoughts about what to take and how to organize these items, for example here or here. However there are different ways of thinking about if the clothes should be folded or rolled see for example here. And this is where The Daily Theory comes in. So roll or fold?

What is the difference ?

- What is the difference between theory and practice?
- Well, in theory nothing, but in practice ...

Why do we need theories?

Actually we don't, do we? However they can make the seemingly chaotic happenings of life be more easy to understand. Or -if we dig deeper- things might get even more messy. However anything you read on this page should not be considered and believed as fact, since there might no scientific evidence exist for any of these theories, indeed they can be really useful in practice.
Anyway if you are interested in theories or you have some facts that you needed to explain with a theory, feel free to contact me or comment this post.