A Paul Sellers original, here is my attempt at making something that will help me get rid of the bloody flies in my workshop.

After 5 months of working most weekends 10+ hour days, I finally managed to finish my chess table. I did not turn my own chess pieces, that I purchased. However the rest is all me. It is made of Wenge and Birds Eye Maple. Everything was made using hand tools - no electricity involved other than the occasional bandsaw assist and my lights.

It seems more and more movies these days make use of time travel as a main plot line. I am specifically referring to traveling to the past - as travelling into the future is not just plausible, it is proven to be possible.

The thing with traveling into the future - there is no breaking of any known physical laws.

Traveling into the past is another story. Forget the grandfather paradox. Why is nobody discussing the blatant violation of The Law Of Conservation of Energy? If you traveled back in time there would be two of you. Where did the energy come from to support your second copy? Conservation of energy must be amended to sum energy over a different temporal period than the current definition for time travel into the past to work.

There is this common, persistent and incredibly misguided belief among everybody I have ever spoken to that you need to be well versed in science and especially mathematics to be able to be a good computer programmer.

This has just been perpetuated here again in the comments.

Analytical skills is most definitely needed to be a good programmer, but mathematics and physics will not necessarily imbue those skills on you. There are many different ways to learn how to be analytical and critical in your thinking.