Entries Tagged as ‘math’

May 23, 2008

Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening

Let me just say I hate Queen.  But this isn’t about Queen.
Do you remember your parents telling you that the way to figure out a storm’s distance is to count the seconds between when you see lightning and when you hear thunder?  I do.  But that’s actually a horrible way to gauge the distance; it’s [...]