If someone falls into a black hole, is their soul stuck there for the 62 zillion years it takes the black hole to evaporate?
If you pushed someone into a black hole, could you beat the murder rap by pointing out that he still hadn't finished falling in, from the jury's reference frame?
If you modified Shrõdinger's experiment so that the decay of an atom dropped the cat into a black hole rather than gassing it, then put a cat in the box to create a superposition of "the cat is in the black hole" and "the cat is not in the black hole", is it possible for the superposition to collapse to "the cat is not in the black hole"?
I don't think we can see anything at all, at present, other than their gravitational effect. For example, the mass of something at the center of our galaxy can be determined by the orbits of some stars zipping around it, and the size of those orbits put an upper bound on that something's diameter.
If we were nearer we should be able to see something similar to black body radiation, assuming we weren't blinded by the material swarming around it and falling in.
Interestingly, some physicists think that we might be able to "see" inside a black hole by detecting gravitons / gravity waves.
Gee, never heard that one before. What the people pushing these ideas don't seem to know is that it's not the tools, it's the way of thinking about a problem. I once worked at a place where we made a manager a tool that would let him create his own reports, and he immediately started adding up all flavors of apples and oranges (e.g., dollars of this and pounds of that). Then he wanted the small IT staff to help him make sense out of his reports.
What is the problem that so many Americans have with socialised medicine? A healthy community is a productive community and pays more taxes to get the job done. I just don't understand why you have a debate about it.
Because doing it your way would destroy the huge profits people are making off of doing it our way.
Democrats are reluctant to provide good government at the expense of someone's profits; for Republicans, it's completely out of the question.
it's interesting to hear that it falls short of your ideal. i haven't heard many people state that opinion.
Its backers accepted a lot of compromises in order to get it out of committee and onto the floor for a vote. A lot of people think the original was somewhere between "substantially better" and "much better".
More to the point, the Federal Government disassembled the last Tea Party movement and the consequence is they've now radicalized the remaining dissidents.
Oh, please. The Tea Party movement has never been anything but angry young white men & retirees cluelessly carrying water for the rich.
However all electronics, toys, whatever says "Made in China".
Along with damn near everything else.
I'm starting to think it's all the free trade agreements that are screwing us. They were sold by claims that "you'll be able to buy the same stuff cheaper", but in fact we pay the same as before for low-quality substitutes, while the nation's ability to do anything but count money and flip burgers withers away.
Tyson also noted how Sandra Bullock's hair did not float freely as it would in zero-gravity. This is arguably not so much an error in physics, but a reflection of the limitations of cinematic technology to accurately portray actors in zero-gravity.
More like Hollywood isn't interested in mussing an actress's hair. Pepper Potts fell into an inferno, and the wonder drug not only healed her, but grew her hair back with the same haircut and combed it.
If you want to go see a movie, expecting to see accurate science or other reflections of reality shouldn't be one of your motives.
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Where, exactly, were these "packets" flowing when the networking cards were removed?
Are they UDP or TCP?
How long does it take you to download a movie over your speaker?
So the flying spaghetti monster could, one day, be for real...
It was created when a walking lasagne monster got too close to a black hole.
this is rediculous
I thought you said it was radiation.
If someone falls into a black hole, is their soul stuck there for the 62 zillion years it takes the black hole to evaporate?
If you pushed someone into a black hole, could you beat the murder rap by pointing out that he still hadn't finished falling in, from the jury's reference frame?
If you modified Shrõdinger's experiment so that the decay of an atom dropped the cat into a black hole rather than gassing it, then put a cat in the box to create a superposition of "the cat is in the black hole" and "the cat is not in the black hole", is it possible for the superposition to collapse to "the cat is not in the black hole"?
I don't think we can see anything at all, at present, other than their gravitational effect. For example, the mass of something at the center of our galaxy can be determined by the orbits of some stars zipping around it, and the size of those orbits put an upper bound on that something's diameter.
If we were nearer we should be able to see something similar to black body radiation, assuming we weren't blinded by the material swarming around it and falling in.
Interestingly, some physicists think that we might be able to "see" inside a black hole by detecting gravitons / gravity waves.
Wow. It's pretty pathetic when the only 'good' thing you have to say about something is that it's not quite as bad as something else.
Unfortunately, that's the way of it when the topic is major US political parties.
A good science/engineering university library subscribes to hundreds of technical journals and keeps them in stacks going back decades.
Lots of universities simply can't afford all the journals they ought to have.
I don't know the NSF's exact rule, but for the last few years every grant proposal has been required to include a Data Dissemination Plan.
as well as undertaking odd and unexpected projects like trying to bring Internet access to developing nations via balloons and blimps.
In this case they're trying to bring internet access to pirates.
IE 11 ain't done until Google won't run.
Has a vaguely familiar ring...
Gee, never heard that one before.
What the people pushing these ideas don't seem to know is that it's not the tools, it's the way of thinking about a problem. I once worked at a place where we made a manager a tool that would let him create his own reports, and he immediately started adding up all flavors of apples and oranges (e.g., dollars of this and pounds of that). Then he wanted the small IT staff to help him make sense out of his reports.
What is the problem that so many Americans have with socialised medicine? A healthy community is a productive community and pays more taxes to get the job done. I just don't understand why you have a debate about it.
Because doing it your way would destroy the huge profits people are making off of doing it our way.
Democrats are reluctant to provide good government at the expense of someone's profits; for Republicans, it's completely out of the question.
Clinton era plan, Obama era plan, same thing.
I dunno... some people are still trying to kill Social Security.
it's interesting to hear that it falls short of your ideal. i haven't heard many people state that opinion.
Its backers accepted a lot of compromises in order to get it out of committee and onto the floor for a vote. A lot of people think the original was somewhere between "substantially better" and "much better".
They all need to go.
Fortunately the Capital bathrooms are open again.
I suspect it will be massaged over the years to work out little wrinkles, with the end result being a single payer system.
I didn't think the Democrats were capable of not caving in.
Don't forget the international drug and arms markets.
More to the point, the Federal Government disassembled the last Tea Party movement and the consequence is they've now radicalized the remaining dissidents.
Oh, please. The Tea Party movement has never been anything but angry young white men & retirees cluelessly carrying water for the rich.
However all electronics, toys, whatever says "Made in China".
Along with damn near everything else.
I'm starting to think it's all the free trade agreements that are screwing us. They were sold by claims that "you'll be able to buy the same stuff cheaper", but in fact we pay the same as before for low-quality substitutes, while the nation's ability to do anything but count money and flip burgers withers away.
Thank George W Bush junior for destroying the trust in the US around the world.
Thank Obama for building on that, rather than working hard to roll it back.
Neither will have a 'legacy' that I would want.
I recommend we shave a little off of the golden calf, AKA the military.
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Except (a) shave off more than a little, and (b) do it incrementally over time, to avoid subjecting the economy to a big shock.
I don't think "tossing off" means what you think it means.
Tyson also noted how Sandra Bullock's hair did not float freely as it would in zero-gravity. This is arguably not so much an error in physics, but a reflection of the limitations of cinematic technology to accurately portray actors in zero-gravity.
More like Hollywood isn't interested in mussing an actress's hair. Pepper Potts fell into an inferno, and the wonder drug not only healed her, but grew her hair back with the same haircut and combed it.
If you want to go see a movie, expecting to see accurate science or other reflections of reality shouldn't be one of your motives.
"confirms there is no longer any debate about the benefits of the vaccine."
There's no longer any debate about a lot of things.