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Did The Past Really Happen?

February 6, 2015 14348977 Views

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/toto-finds-a-home-at-hollywood-forever/

“highway” vs “freeway”: http://sgtalcastro.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-difference-between-highway-freeway.html

why are old things so often underground?:

http://goo.gl/u8SFFw
http://www.archaeological.org/education/askexpertsfaq#faq3

“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/occam.html

Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword: https://philosophynow.org/issues/46/Newtons_Flaming_Laser_Sword

other razors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_(philosophy)

Interpreting the past (including us, when we become “the past”):

http://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/01/the-archaeology-of-the-future-part-2/56891
http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist&civ/chapters/01HIST.htm
http://bigthink.com/videos/how-will-future-historians-see-us-2
http://www.albany.edu/~scifraud/data/sci_fraud_3486.html

This American Life on people in the future: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/167/memo-to-the-people-of-the-future

The 15th century wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century#Significant_people

conservation of energy: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/187240/conservation-of-energy

history of perpetual motion: http://www.hp-gramatke.net/perpetuum/english/page0020.htm

Why old computers and consoles turn yellow: http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/189

the Second Law of Thermodynamics: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/seclaw.html

Heat Death of the universe: http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae181.cfm

Good entropy resources:

http://entropysimple.oxy.edu/content.htm

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/05/elusive-entropy/

Q: Why does the entropy of the universe always increase, and what is the heat death of the universe?


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