What exactly do you mean? Could you reproduce this calculation?
I mean that if a charged duetrium particle is near the edge of the metal, the electric field is sufficient, if the duetrium doesn't collide with anything, that by the time it has passed through the electric field it will be going fast enough to fuse with another duetrium atom.
Unfortunatly, it was three years ago that I did this, and I can't reproduce the calculations, having filled my brain with too much EE since then.
No, they don't magically get around the coulomb barrier. Its just that the potential across the surface of an electrolytic cell is enough, in theory, to overcome it. We did the calcs in freshmen materials science.
Back in our introductory chemsitry course at MIT, our proffesor had us calculate the potential over the electorlytic layer they were using, and demonstrate that it was enough to fuse two duetrium atoms together. So basically this fusion is working the same way as the old proton-in-a-particle-accelerator setup, but at better efficiency.
Most of the resistance is not due to possible accidents; that's an intellectually dishonest strawman argument the rabidly pro-nuclear people throw around to divert attention from the waste problem
Then the scores of poeple who have objected on the basis of disasters in this very article are all in the pay of the nuclear industry? Accidents might not be an objection of the more sophisticated anti-nuclear people, but amung the public it still seems to be very prevalent.
MIT has been and still is heavily dominated by fraternities
I really have to take issue with that. I've been at MIT for 3 years, the only non-frat members who I know who've gone to MIT frat parties are from Wellesly. Well, there is Epsilon Theta, but thats Co-Ed.
Because MIT allows students so much more choice in where they end up housed, our dorms tend to develop strong personalities in the way that Frats at some schools normally do.
Certainly a great deal of progress has been made, but if you look at the statistics African Americans were gaining ground faster before affirmative action was put in place, counter-intuitive as that is.
The silly notion that we can somehow right the wrongs by giving those groups discriminated in the past preference over those who were not is just as wrong.
Regardless of the moral rights or wrongs of affirmative action, the truth is that giving preferential treatment to any group, majority or minority, privledged or not, is generally less likely to produce the intended effect than to produce the opposite. Whether with African Americans, Malays, or low cast Indians, I've never heard of a case of affirmative action succeeding, though I'd be happy if someone could manage to provide one.
One the other hand, I can't see any evidence that Dr. Hockfield was chosen for her gender, since she seems perfeclty qualified.
There is no internet but The Internet, and Google is its prophet.
I think thats the start of a new religion. After all, is there anything that google does not know? You may try to post a counterexample, but then it will be on the web and lo, Google will now know it.
I really don't think the Arnold wants to stop hollywood companies from using Canada not because of any hidden antipathy towards people who put maple leaves on their flags, but rather because of Canada's large movie subsidies. Since Canada doesn't subsidise open source development I don't think California has any reason not to import that.
Also, photons tend to lose less energy than protons as you get farther away from the sun, since they have a lower mass to energy ratio. Or another way to think about it is that they move faster, spending less time being pulled on by gravity before getting out here to Earth.
You see you can tack with a solar sail, but you can only tack to go in different directions [i]downwind[/i]. You can't tack upwind without the equivalent of a keel, something thats sort of hard to come by in space.
Yeah, they had the writes, but their title to them was running out soon, so they looked around to see if they had a script handy that they could make into a I Robot movie. Sure enough, a script called Hard Wired fit the bill, and after some cosmetic changes thats the movie in thearters now.
I think that the fundamental differnece will be that these new serial numbers will be broadcast by a chip on the item, and all items will be on the same numbering scheme, so it will be a *lot* easier to identify who owns what.
Everybody in course 6 has to deal with those in 6.004. I can assure you that MIT isn't just about programming (though I have become a l33t turing machine HaX0r ^_^).
If you're desperate, you're incapable (ie, too immature) of taking care of your current problems.
I'd allways thought that was just basic psychology, "if other people like it, it must be good." If you show a photo of a guy ( and it works for girls too) to a hundred girls, and tell half of them that hes married they will on average rate him as much more handsom than the other fifty.
Sorry about this, I just grabbed the first link I found. But let me assure you, that half the amature strippers are female, as are about half the attendees.
MIT was accidentally listed as one of Playboy's top 10 party schools one year, when the reporters went to Steer Roast, and didn't stick around for the rest of the time. MIT doesn't party often, but when it does...
http://web.media.mit.edu/~jofish/pictures/2002/s te er.roast.2002/
Think of it this way. There's a lot more to computer security than virus attack, but virus attacks are the most visable reason to have a secure computer.
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What exactly do you mean? Could you reproduce this calculation?
I mean that if a charged duetrium particle is near the edge of the metal, the electric field is sufficient, if the duetrium doesn't collide with anything, that by the time it has passed through the electric field it will be going fast enough to fuse with another duetrium atom.
Unfortunatly, it was three years ago that I did this, and I can't reproduce the calculations, having filled my brain with too much EE since then.
I'd highly recomend the wikipedia article on cold fusion, here.
No, they don't magically get around the coulomb barrier. Its just that the potential across the surface of an electrolytic cell is enough, in theory, to overcome it. We did the calcs in freshmen materials science.
Back in our introductory chemsitry course at MIT, our proffesor had us calculate the potential over the electorlytic layer they were using, and demonstrate that it was enough to fuse two duetrium atoms together. So basically this fusion is working the same way as the old proton-in-a-particle-accelerator setup, but at better efficiency.
Because Pons-Flechmann didn't publish before holding a press conference it was hard for other scientists to tell if they had the exact same setup.
Maybe after they apologize to Steven Jones.
Most of the resistance is not due to possible accidents; that's an intellectually dishonest strawman argument the rabidly pro-nuclear people throw around to divert attention from the waste problem
Then the scores of poeple who have objected on the basis of disasters in this very article are all in the pay of the nuclear industry? Accidents might not be an objection of the more sophisticated anti-nuclear people, but amung the public it still seems to be very prevalent.
MIT has been and still is heavily dominated by fraternities
I really have to take issue with that. I've been at MIT for 3 years, the only non-frat members who I know who've gone to MIT frat parties are from Wellesly. Well, there is Epsilon Theta, but thats Co-Ed.
Because MIT allows students so much more choice in where they end up housed, our dorms tend to develop strong personalities in the way that Frats at some schools normally do.
the entering freshman class (the one I'm in)
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Certainly a great deal of progress has been made, but if you look at the statistics African Americans were gaining ground faster before affirmative action was put in place, counter-intuitive as that is.
The silly notion that we can somehow right the wrongs by giving those groups discriminated in the past preference over those who were not is just as wrong.
Regardless of the moral rights or wrongs of affirmative action, the truth is that giving preferential treatment to any group, majority or minority, privledged or not, is generally less likely to produce the intended effect than to produce the opposite. Whether with African Americans, Malays, or low cast Indians, I've never heard of a case of affirmative action succeeding, though I'd be happy if someone could manage to provide one.
One the other hand, I can't see any evidence that Dr. Hockfield was chosen for her gender, since she seems perfeclty qualified.
Quite true, depending on a few variables, it would probably quickly evaporate - an a literally earthshattering bang.
There is no internet but The Internet, and Google is its prophet.
I think thats the start of a new religion. After all, is there anything that google does not know? You may try to post a counterexample, but then it will be on the web and lo, Google will now know it.
I really don't think the Arnold wants to stop hollywood companies from using Canada not because of any hidden antipathy towards people who put maple leaves on their flags, but rather because of Canada's large movie subsidies. Since Canada doesn't subsidise open source development I don't think California has any reason not to import that.
Also, photons tend to lose less energy than protons as you get farther away from the sun, since they have a lower mass to energy ratio. Or another way to think about it is that they move faster, spending less time being pulled on by gravity before getting out here to Earth.
Almost, but not quite.
You see you can tack with a solar sail, but you can only tack to go in different directions [i]downwind[/i]. You can't tack upwind without the equivalent of a keel, something thats sort of hard to come by in space.
Yeah, they had the writes, but their title to them was running out soon, so they looked around to see if they had a script handy that they could make into a I Robot movie. Sure enough, a script called Hard Wired fit the bill, and after some cosmetic changes thats the movie in thearters now.
Stuff like that comes too late to do any good.
If you have a large enough sample population (and IBM is big) you can find people dying of cancer in their 30s and 40s. Period.
...then thats what it takes.
I think that the fundamental differnece will be that these new serial numbers will be broadcast by a chip on the item, and all items will be on the same numbering scheme, so it will be a *lot* easier to identify who owns what.
Everybody in course 6 has to deal with those in 6.004. I can assure you that MIT isn't just about programming (though I have become a l33t turing machine HaX0r ^_^).
(as a slashdotter who has a girlfriend)
If you're desperate, you're incapable (ie, too immature) of taking care of your current problems.I'd allways thought that was just basic psychology, "if other people like it, it must be good." If you show a photo of a guy ( and it works for girls too) to a hundred girls, and tell half of them that hes married they will on average rate him as much more handsom than the other fifty.
Sorry about this, I just grabbed the first link I found. But let me assure you, that half the amature strippers are female, as are about half the attendees.
e s/ 2003/steerRoast.html
s te er.roast.2002/
Here are some better sites:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~mkg/day_to_day/pictur
http://www.geocities.com/jetandspike/pixrst98/
http://www.andystevens.com/photos/sr99/
MIT was accidentally listed as one of Playboy's top 10 party schools one year, when the reporters went to Steer Roast, and didn't stick around for the rest of the time. MIT doesn't party often, but when it does...
http://web.media.mit.edu/~jofish/pictures/2002/
Think of it this way. There's a lot more to computer security than virus attack, but virus attacks are the most visable reason to have a secure computer.