wouldn't the INTAKE fan still INTAKE (hence the name) and therefore draw dust? Without major imbalance, isn't there generally positive pressure at all EXHAUST fans (even if the case itself may wheaz)?
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close...but not really.
First, you can't refer to "slowing down" time because there isn't absolute time. If you and I move relative to each other, your time looks slower to me AND my time looks slower to you. The reason this isn't paradoxical is that we are no longer referring to the same thing. This is special relativity.
Now, the only way we get back to referring to the same thing is if we stop moving with respect to each other, which requires acceleration. ACCELERATION slows down time. This is general relativity.
Time does not exist for a photon. If you asked a photon about its trip, it wouldn't understand what you were saying because (aside from not being conscious) in the photon's frame, it is all places along its path at once (even that isn't true because "at once" refers to a time, which the photon doesn't have). Make sense?:)
uhhhh...they emit electronS? What happened to conservation of charge? It is documented that photons -> electron + positron, but a CHARGELESS photon CAN NOT produce two negative charges.
And assuming that your description of events is correct, that stupid conservation of energy thingie is going to require that the photons have the required energy to create particles.
I think it is probably of some importance that someone selling you something be intimately familiar with it. As you'll note, he didn't say he asks his doctor or car mechanic...he said he asked people selling him materials to which such a question has some relevance.
Did you think he was somehow insulting you?
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I think his point is the curvature of space in GR: that in a nice flat Cartesian universe, the ratio of circumference and diameter is 3.1415927(etc); but in a curved universe (one with gravity and acceleration), that number changes. What is the ratio of circumference to diameter on the surface of a globe?
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It was Maxwell...he condensed all of what was known about electricity and magnetism into those 4 (or 2, depending on your notation) equations, aptly called MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS, that govern all of electromagnetism. These equations predict very clearly the speed of an electromagnetic wave (light) in a medium based on its electric and magnetic permitivity (epsilon and mu). For a vacuum, that number is very nearly 300,000km/s. Obviously different media have different permitivities, and thus different values for c. But, that cosmic speed limit still exists...if you were IN the same media, you still wouldn't be able to go faster than light.
They can "watch" it pass the event horizon because, also due to grt, it gets infinitely red-shifted in that infinite time. It very quickly goes outside the spectrum we can monitor.
black holes aren't the only things that look infinitely dense. Electrons, as far as we can tell, have NO volume, giving them infinite mass and charge density. Hmmmmm...
uhhh...what does behind the curb mean? Did you intend to say curve? Regardless, they are shooting for 10GHz by then in a reasonably priced chip (of course, that still means a cool grand+). If superconductors were cheap, everything would be using them.
the hole wasn't blown by a pre-spice mass. It was blown by nukes (as clearly stated in Lynch and the book). Don't feel bad, the SF version didn't even HINT at this.
This series was terrible. Doesn't hold a candle to Lynch, much less the book. I watched it in the same sense that I watch this election mess: I hate it, I'm appalled(sp?) by it, but I HAVE to watch to see how much worse it could get. Painful.
errr...isn't the STORY which you refer to taken care of in the book? I mean, the book is genius, and the movie's story has nowhere to go but down. At that point, I'm watching for interpretation and fx...of which neither was impressive (in fact, it was mostly annoying).
I stand corrected. Of course (getting back to the subject), given that this is actually a republic, couldn't it be SCROTUS? Sorry...it has been a long day:).
exactly...the reason why? IMHO, it is a "federalist" supreme court realizing they really don't have the grounds to overturn it outright; and even if they did, not wanting to set that kind of precedent. So they'll send it back to the FSC, which will probably make the same decision, and the USSC gets out of the loop unscathed (having neither denied the case or overturned a state court).
I would guess that claiming English bastardizes Latin would, in a round-about sort of way include bastardizing any romantic language (french, for instance). Regardless, this bastardization results in all sorts of fun for those with decent vocabulary:
If I've had too much to drink, I'm quite likely to describe it with the germanic "drunk".
If you've had too much to drink, I'm quite likely to accuse you of being the romantic "inebriated".
Buchanan got 8,000 votes in the republican primary...which indicates 8,000 people would have rather seen him than Bob Dole. There is a gap here that still isn't bridged (especially considering the statistics related to this. If you check the election results of 96 primary, the 8,000 people in Palm Beach doesn't stand out in relation to general voting...it is more than normal, but statistically unimpressive. The results of 00 general election are SERIOUSLY statistically unlikely).
Mr. Daly's complaints stem from public complaints, which were lodged back when the networks were still indicating Gore had won the state. If no one complained in Cook County, that doesn't make the ballot any more legal...it merely means those people weren't confused (or could really care less about it).
Are you blind? I would link you to the CNN website, but they update/change the election story about every 15 minutes, so you aren't likely to find any particular statistic in any given visit. This has been the story since last night...people were DENIED a new ballot (PRIOR to their turning in the misvotes).
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wouldn't the INTAKE fan still INTAKE (hence the name) and therefore draw dust? Without major imbalance, isn't there generally positive pressure at all EXHAUST fans (even if the case itself may wheaz)?
uh, nobody is thriving right now...doesn't mean lucent isn't doing better than Bell would be if it was still AT&T right now.
isn't it terrible flavored beer...something about a farm...boone's farm?
is that communist using an imac?
First, you can't refer to "slowing down" time because there isn't absolute time. If you and I move relative to each other, your time looks slower to me AND my time looks slower to you. The reason this isn't paradoxical is that we are no longer referring to the same thing. This is special relativity.
Now, the only way we get back to referring to the same thing is if we stop moving with respect to each other, which requires acceleration. ACCELERATION slows down time. This is general relativity.
Time does not exist for a photon. If you asked a photon about its trip, it wouldn't understand what you were saying because (aside from not being conscious) in the photon's frame, it is all places along its path at once (even that isn't true because "at once" refers to a time, which the photon doesn't have). Make sense? :)
And assuming that your description of events is correct, that stupid conservation of energy thingie is going to require that the photons have the required energy to create particles.
Did you think he was somehow insulting you?
I think his point is the curvature of space in GR: that in a nice flat Cartesian universe, the ratio of circumference and diameter is 3.1415927(etc); but in a curved universe (one with gravity and acceleration), that number changes. What is the ratio of circumference to diameter on the surface of a globe?
It was Maxwell...he condensed all of what was known about electricity and magnetism into those 4 (or 2, depending on your notation) equations, aptly called MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS, that govern all of electromagnetism. These equations predict very clearly the speed of an electromagnetic wave (light) in a medium based on its electric and magnetic permitivity (epsilon and mu). For a vacuum, that number is very nearly 300,000km/s. Obviously different media have different permitivities, and thus different values for c. But, that cosmic speed limit still exists...if you were IN the same media, you still wouldn't be able to go faster than light.
They can "watch" it pass the event horizon because, also due to grt, it gets infinitely red-shifted in that infinite time. It very quickly goes outside the spectrum we can monitor.
black holes aren't the only things that look infinitely dense. Electrons, as far as we can tell, have NO volume, giving them infinite mass and charge density. Hmmmmm...
uhhh...what does behind the curb mean? Did you intend to say curve? Regardless, they are shooting for 10GHz by then in a reasonably priced chip (of course, that still means a cool grand+). If superconductors were cheap, everything would be using them.
the hole wasn't blown by a pre-spice mass. It was blown by nukes (as clearly stated in Lynch and the book). Don't feel bad, the SF version didn't even HINT at this.
This series was terrible. Doesn't hold a candle to Lynch, much less the book. I watched it in the same sense that I watch this election mess: I hate it, I'm appalled(sp?) by it, but I HAVE to watch to see how much worse it could get. Painful.
My favorites are "it is intuitively obvious", and "left as an excercise to the student/reader".
errr...isn't the STORY which you refer to taken care of in the book? I mean, the book is genius, and the movie's story has nowhere to go but down. At that point, I'm watching for interpretation and fx...of which neither was impressive (in fact, it was mostly annoying).
I stand corrected. Of course (getting back to the subject), given that this is actually a republic, couldn't it be SCROTUS? Sorry...it has been a long day :).
exactly...the reason why? IMHO, it is a "federalist" supreme court realizing they really don't have the grounds to overturn it outright; and even if they did, not wanting to set that kind of precedent. So they'll send it back to the FSC, which will probably make the same decision, and the USSC gets out of the loop unscathed (having neither denied the case or overturned a state court).
really?! Newton FOUNDED the scientific method? I'm sure some earlier scientists would beg to differ.
You'll be the cranks out there with the picket signs
Within several years you'll be less that irrelevant.
Sound familiar? I think Clinton supporters have said it for 8 years...and the "loonies" never seem to go away...
If I've had too much to drink, I'm quite likely to describe it with the germanic "drunk".
If you've had too much to drink, I'm quite likely to accuse you of being the romantic "inebriated".
Buchanan got 8,000 votes in the republican primary...which indicates 8,000 people would have rather seen him than Bob Dole. There is a gap here that still isn't bridged (especially considering the statistics related to this. If you check the election results of 96 primary, the 8,000 people in Palm Beach doesn't stand out in relation to general voting...it is more than normal, but statistically unimpressive. The results of 00 general election are SERIOUSLY statistically unlikely). Mr. Daly's complaints stem from public complaints, which were lodged back when the networks were still indicating Gore had won the state. If no one complained in Cook County, that doesn't make the ballot any more legal...it merely means those people weren't confused (or could really care less about it).
Are you blind? I would link you to the CNN website, but they update/change the election story about every 15 minutes, so you aren't likely to find any particular statistic in any given visit. This has been the story since last night...people were DENIED a new ballot (PRIOR to their turning in the misvotes).
Fact: the reform party in 96 was a FAR different animal that the reform party in 00 (source: simple analysis).
Fact: the votes for Buchanan in Palm Beach amount to a one in three QUADRILLION chance (source: the guy from MIT).
Fact: 15,000 ballots is NOT the number from 96...in fact, the real number is closer to 5,000 (source: CNN)
sorry...on reread, the sarcasm isn't as apparent as intended :)