Did The Past Really Happen?
Greece is full of wonderful new things and wonderful old things. But when WE become old things, will our ruins also be tourist attractions?
**Sources and extra info below!!**
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Humorous/interesting videos about how future archeologists might interpret us:
VIDEO: “Beatles 3000”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI
VIDEO: “Neil deGrasse Tyson On Manhattanhenge”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iafX0awnxS8
Toto: http://allanellenberger.com/to....to-finds-a-home-at-h
“highway” vs “freeway”: http://sgtalcastro.blogspot.co.....uk/2012/12/the-diff
why are old things so often underground?:
http://goo.gl/u8SFFw
http://www.archaeological.org/....education/askexperts
“Motel of Mysteries” (great book I remember from when I was a kid): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/0395284252/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423256636&sr=8-1&keywords=motel+of+mysteries
Last Thursdayism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos_hypothesis
http://www.last-thursday.org/
Occam’s Razor: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/....physics/General/occa
Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword: https://philosophynow.org/issu....es/46/Newtons_Flamin
other razors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_(philosophy)
Interpreting the past (including us, when we become “the past”):
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2....014/01/the-archaeolo
http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist&civ/chapters/01HIST.htm
http://bigthink.com/videos/how....-will-future-histori
http://www.albany.edu/~scifrau....d/data/sci_fraud_348
This American Life on people in the future: http://www.thisamericanlife.or....g/radio-archives/epi
The 15th century wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1....5th_century#Signific
conservation of energy: http://www.britannica.com/EBch....ecked/topic/187240/c
history of perpetual motion: http://www.hp-gramatke.net/per....petuum/english/page0
Why old computers and consoles turn yellow: http://www.vintagecomputing.co....m/index.php/archives
the Second Law of Thermodynamics: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.g....su.edu/hbase/thermo/
Heat Death of the universe: http://www.physlink.com/Educat....ion/AskExperts/ae181
Good entropy resources:
http://entropysimple.oxy.edu/content.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=870y6GUKbwc
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the....-math/2013/05/elusiv
http://www.askamathematician.c....om/2011/12/q-why-doe
http://www.learner.org/courses/chemistry/visuals/visuals.html?dis=U&num=Ym5WdElURS9NQ289