On the Internet, there is available free computer software to show you what it is like to travel near the speed of light. How do you find it? Most people would refer to such software as a
and these are the magic words to type into a search engine such as MetaCrawler or Yahoo if you want to find such a program.
Likewise, if you want to read up on the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the appropriate phrase to search for is
and it is helpful to know this. If you tried to search for something like wave particle duality the results might be nothing like as good, and you could have missed out on the main websites in this area. The problem here is that you need to know what to look for on the signpost before you reach the destination, but you don't have much idea of the name of the destination until you get there. The solution is for us to provide some suggested signposts.
Here is a list of stock phrases. Note that everything is in lower case so we must apologise where some of the phrases incorporate proper names. Search engine submissions are best made all in lower case and any capital letters will be matched anyway (but the converse may not happen: submissions in capital letters may not be matched to lower case).
Note that variant spellings may exist. Boris Podolsky sometimes has his name given as Podolski, and Schroedinger may be rendered as Schrodinger. British colour, flavour and aluminium may be rendered by Americans as color, flavor and aluminum. These are of course well-known variations, but others may catch you out, like British vice and American vise.
This list is currently biassed towards its compiler's interests. Please e-mail the compiler with suggestions for additions or amendments to make this a more representative list. We are particularly interested in communications from the owner of any website with free software available, and one theme of the above list is the possibility or actuality of computer simulations or cartoons (see note below) to illustrate each topic. Our thanks go (in advance) to our contributors and to those people who have put the compiler right in the past.
The compiler maintains in parallel a GATEWAY TO PHYSICS and a page of links to relativistic flight simulators. Every so often, he searches the Internet for relativistic flight simulator using in turn MetaCrawler, Yahoo, HotBot (from Yahoo), TIPTOP, Galaxy and WWW-VL. If anything new turns up, then it is a candidate for inclusion in the page of links to relativistic flight simulators. If you want to publish something, this gives you an idea of how other people might go about finding you. Please make sure that they can! To appear in MetaCrawler, it is suggested that you submit at least to Infoseek and AltaVista. Believe it or not, there are still people producing websites which they never submit to anything, so they are totally invisible!
If you have a website, then it is suggested that at least some of the key words and phrases on your site conform to the above list. If you are not happy with this list, then do please contact the compiler. The point is simply for people to be able to find you. With other words, include a few variant spellings and even common mistakes. If other people are in the habit of mis-spelling your name, then swallow your pride and include the mis-spelling in a list of key words. Look at the HTML code for this page to see the compiler practising what he preaches.
Note: There is an obvious technical difference between a computer simulation and a computer cartoon. A simulation does a numerical solution of the governing equations, such as the Navier-Stokes equation or the Schroedinger equation, while a cartoon explains something by 'cheating'. For example, the gravitational many-body problem leads to a computer simulation, while solving Kepler's equation leads to a cartoon. We could easily program a cartoon to explain Bell's inequalities, but programming a simulation is a different matter.
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