Chronon.org
Title
Chronon Critical Points
Description
About this website
I read a lot of books which fall into the 'Popular Science' category, and this website is written to appeal to other readers of such books. I try to add a page regularly, either an applet concerning some scientific topic, or an article on an subject of interest, or a book review. I hope that you will find plenty to interest you here.
Applets
Books are all very well, but I feel that interactivity helps enormously when trying to understand science and mathematics - it is useful to have something to play with and try out different concepts. This is the thinking behind the applets on the site - they are written to illustrate scientific and mathematical ideas. Personal computers are so powerful nowadays that things are possible which would have required a powerful workstation several years ago. So whenever I come across an interesting problem I try to think of how it could be illustrated with an applet. Of course they are only short projects, not up to the level of what researchers in an area come up with, but I do try to do something different to what is available elsewhere on the web.
I realise that it is probably the writer of the program who gets the most benefit from this, and so I am hoping to get involved with other people in forming a group to write open source scientific software of this form. But more on that at a later date.
Contact
- Mira Software
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- Oxford
- GB OX3 0QP
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- +44.1865437456
