Tag Archives: time
The Big Bang, Einstein’s Biggest Blunder, and the Age of the Universe
The Big Bang is considered the birth of our Universe and, in consequence, the origin of space and time. It’s hard to wrap your brain around the fact that when looking into the sky at stars and planets light-years away, … Continue reading →
Posted in Astronomy, Physics, Science
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Tagged 13.7 billion, 13.7 billion years, Albert Einstein, Annales de la Societe Scientifique de Bruxelles, Big Bang, cosmological constant, Edwin Hubble, Einstein, expanding universe, Friedmann-Lemaitre model, Friedmann-Lemaitre model of general relativity, general relativity, general theory of relativity, Georges Lemaitre, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law, Mount Wilson Observatory, origin of space, origin of space and time, origin of time, Redshift Distance Law of galaxies, space, space and time, time, Universe
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Scalar and List Contexts in Perl
One of the most important concepts to understand in Perl programming is that of evaluation based on context. In Perl, an operation such as an assignment or function call can give two different results based on the context of the … Continue reading →
Posted in Perl, Programming Languages
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Tagged context, context based evaluation, evaluation, list, list context, localtime, perl, perl time function, scalar, scalar context, time, time function
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