Archive for the ‘Ideas’ Category

Selling Virtual Things

Posted by Eric P. Metze On September 4, 2007 ADD COMMENTS
Virtual Goods

My cousin, Steve Metze, asked me how one could make money selling virtual things. Well, the entire Second Life economy is a lot like the US economy, only it’s based on the Linden (L$), which is their version of the dollar. Now, if it was just play money I wouldn’t be excited about it in  [ Read More ]

We are mostly nothing!

Posted by Eric P. Metze On July 10, 2007 ADD COMMENTS
proton

Do you realize that we are mostly empty space? And when I say “mostly” I mean, almost entirely. Not just 75% or 90% or even 99%…we’re something like 99.99999999999999999% completely empty space! Want to see what I mean? I created a graphic that represents an electron as one pixel, which means that the proton graphic  [ Read More ]

A Thought Experiment

Posted by Eric P. Metze On March 28, 2001 ADD COMMENTS

Where does a good story begin? In a dark, wet alleyway of a large city? How about a cotton field in Texas? A business cubicle just before midnight? No. It starts inside an atom, just inside the electron shell. The hum of the spinning protons, neutrons and electrons create a weird echo in here. We  [ Read More ]