I knew that before I posted, and in fact I always tell people the exact same thing, but I had to type that message in the 37 seconds I had left and I couldn't think of a better way to phrase it in that time. Thanks for correcting me, BTW, cause I didn't have the time to;)
Self-repairing plastic could be used in windshields, but also glasses. Scratched and broken glasses are a good application.
A better application would be the screen on a Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance etc. They constantly get scratched, so now all you need to do is heat it and it's "healed". Sounds good.
When I read this article, I strangely envisaged Mr. Bush, president of the American Country, getting Americans to try to weld it back on...
Strange the way the mind works when it's 6AM, you've been up all night and you've just spent the past 3 hours arguing quantum physics on IRC, earning lifetime bans on all major channels. o_0
This is old news. They used that system over 5 years ago to discover that that exact star was, in fact, two stars. Explained the brightness of it. But I have to point out that this IS REALLY OLD news.
On a more constructive point, the best course of action now would probably be to make a similar system on the "dark" side of Luna, the planet Earth's moon because, as was noted several years ago, the further apart the telescopes are, the better resolution and clarity you would get, though you might need to introduce more for accuracy. It would be much better thant eh hubble telescope, most would admit, though it isn't stationary.
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Thanks for your support. I do know that my mental age is far beyond that of the number of years since my birth, as can be said for a lot of those who post on slashdot.
And, jsut a little reference, although you said that your explanation does not require it, the report clearly stated that there is always ionisation. (The inital ion cloud expanding at 20km/s which occurs 1 microsecond after the laser-pulse). I agree that the photonic pulse is probably the result of electron-"shell-shifting", which I happen to know is not only caused by an inward shift, but also an outward shift. So, as you see, the shift MAY be caused by electrons with more energy pushing themselves onto already full particles, thus forcing the other electrons to push out at a greater velocity, OR it may be caused by the existing electrons gaining so much energy that they break the bond and move outward from the particle.
In either case, knowing the charge of the initial ion-cloud would help with the theories. Anyone know it?
Here's a little theory I thought up there now, while reading the full article on spacedaily:
Remember, I'm only 16 so I don't have enough grounding in particle physics to make a more solid theory.
The particles are ionised because the laser (a highly coherent beam of focused photons) interacts with the electrons in the lead atoms. The photons literally knock the electrons in the atoms of the lead further back into the lead by giving them energy and raising the resistance back towards the laser.
A lot of energy is, at the same time, given to lots of particles of lead. The particles of lead given energy are those in the direct path of the laser and thus are those which have had their electrons removed by the laser, thus producing the ionised lead cloud.
With all this energy stored up in the electrons, which have no atoms to return to, it has to go somewhere! The electrons cannot enter the outer electron shells of the lead atoms, so they are bounced around the lead, attracted by the gravitational pull of the atoms but repelled by the electrons, while possibly forcing electrons with less energy than them out of the outer electron shells and replacing them.
When an electron is forced out of its shell (as in the first case 1millionth of a second after the laser discontinues) it emits the energy it had stored in the bond, like splitting the bonds in an actual atom, but with less intensity.
When the electrons are forced out in the second case (50 millionths of a second after the first wave), energy is used in making the new bonds and the same ammount is used in breaking the old bonds, BUT the electrons making the new bond and breaking the old ones already have a lot of energy from the laser, which is released when the electrons enter the outer electron shells of the atoms, because the energy released from breaking the bonds cannot enter the energy-saturated electrons and the energy taken in from making the bond is already present in the electrons entering the shell.
Ah, but the principle is the same. There would be a lot of free floating electrons between the strands, and also the electron flow is more coherent when flowing laterally along the tube compared to a solid mass of disorganised carbon molecules. No matter how much of a latice solid carbon may be, strands in a certain direction would allow for a much faster electron transmission. This could be used to make welectrical wiring more efficient but it would also make them more fragile.
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Damnit, you guys don't know much about Star-Trek Physics:)
Making the main deflector emit a tachyon pulse is only good for finding cloaked vessels nearby:)
Well, with the carbon artificially layered like this, in concentric circles with tiny spaces between the layers, the constructions resulting from this would be an artificial circular graphite-type material. The extra electron storage would result from the sea of free-floating electrons between each layer, as in graphite.
It is interesting to note that the comet was seen over 340 years ago by people who weren't quite sure what it was and was marked down as a "bright light in the sky". So we see that on it's last passing near earth's orbit in 1661 it was visible to the naked eye just as it is now. At that time it was also recorded as a very bright comet by the scientific coomunity which existed at the time, but to the leity it was seen as a "sign from God".
I belive it was seen during a war, but I never listened when i did History at school. What war was it, if there was a war at the time at all?
The one thing I have to say in the writer's defence is that opiates can be used to dull the pain caused by lactic acids resulting from anaerobic respiration, such as pushing yourself harder than your oxygen supply will allow, or doing the 100m (done anaerobically) without having to think about the pain which will come at the end. Admittedly, 100m runners don't actually think of the pain at all because of their mental training, but some events would be affected by any lack of pain.
New species areconstantly being discovered at such a fast rate that newly evolving ones, even fast-evolving ones) are a neglegable ammount, but they still must be considered and not simply overlooked, like sub-species.
Although even fast mutations only result in sub-species in the short term, what consitiutes a new species? A single mutation in a master control gene could completely change the look and working of that sub-species of the species. At what point of change does the new sub-species become a new species? Example - If a crocodile's scales become scales of bone by changing the master control genes designating the genes responsible for the protien strands used in constructing it etc. (I'm not sure at all if this is possible... it's just an example I thought up off the top of my head). Although that would most likely be considered a new sub-species, What kind of mutations in the master control genes would merrit it being a new species?
True, the levels are low but at solar max you'd get more electromagnetic interference.
Remember, you still have to send the images back to earth in some form of EM stream so I hope the ammount is neglegable (usually is) but if it turns out to be too high, the pictures may be distorted more than usual. Do you know how NASA seals with signal degredation? Perhaps they use a biyt parity system, which would take a long time but NASA have got the time to spare for such invaluable information.
"Human embryo cloning" is exactly what it says - the cloning of the human embryo. I do not believe they will be permitted to keep leving foetal clones. Though, the study of embryotic Stem cells is invaluable, in my opinion.
It would be very interesting to see how Jupiter's magnetic field varies during solar max. Though the probe would need a better form of protection against the more intense solar winds in order to take good pictures. We don't have magnetographs of earth during solar max yet, do we?
I recall this "bubble" process being described as a process of collecting Zero Point energy (Background Quantum Interference) on a very small scale. Nice to see the research has branched into new theories.
I wonder if the idea of firing a particle beam through a crystaline structure in order to resequence the atoms in a particular way was inspired by Replicatros from Star Trek. Although smaller new technologies are almost always just advancements on old ones (e.g. The first car was just a horse and carraige but without the horse.), Large leaps in scientific research on new concepts are usually derrived from science fiction.
They already have a small machine (not exactly portable yet, but they're working on it) capable of obtaining several types of medical information at once - much like the medical tricorder from Star Trek, and the hypospray has already been invented and was successfully tested in England on children who were receiving their "BCG". It forces the liquid through the pours in the skin, causing a slight inflamation in the skin for about 10 minutes, but leaving no scar and the injection itself having no pain.
With all of this, I can't help but think where this new technology will lead. I do hope that in my lifetime I witness the storing the patterns of whole objects digitally on a microchip which releases requenced electrons into a container containing some of one of the liquid-crystal forms with 5 carbons which temporarily hardens on being struck with electrons. Entire objects could be cretaed from an accelerated particle stream, including smaller components for electronic devices, remarkably improving the speed of miniaturisation and the quality of miniaturised products, aswell as boosting productivity because it would be a much faster production method.
This will certainly be a very welcome technology when developed further.
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I knew that before I posted, and in fact I always tell people the exact same thing, but I had to type that message in the 37 seconds I had left and I couldn't think of a better way to phrase it in that time. Thanks for correcting me, BTW, cause I didn't have the time to ;)
Self-repairing plastic could be used in windshields, but also glasses. Scratched and broken glasses are a good application.
A better application would be the screen on a Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance etc. They constantly get scratched, so now all you need to do is heat it and it's "healed". Sounds good.
That was the BEST series ever! I seem to remember it had a female Neromancer in it, yes?.. She's more like a druid than a necromancer though.
Strange the way the mind works when it's 6AM, you've been up all night and you've just spent the past 3 hours arguing quantum physics on IRC, earning lifetime bans on all major channels. o_0
It's not that the rejection lowers the ability... it lowers the drive. It lowers your drive to use the ability.
... It can. Just because something can be done, and should be done, it is not nececarilly done. There are a lot fo limiting factors involved :(
On a more constructive point, the best course of action now would probably be to make a similar system on the "dark" side of Luna, the planet Earth's moon because, as was noted several years ago, the further apart the telescopes are, the better resolution and clarity you would get, though you might need to introduce more for accuracy. It would be much better thant eh hubble telescope, most would admit, though it isn't stationary.
"Elephant Beetle" - Well maybe it ate too much ;)
And, jsut a little reference, although you said that your explanation does not require it, the report clearly stated that there is always ionisation. (The inital ion cloud expanding at 20km/s which occurs 1 microsecond after the laser-pulse). I agree that the photonic pulse is probably the result of electron-"shell-shifting", which I happen to know is not only caused by an inward shift, but also an outward shift. So, as you see, the shift MAY be caused by electrons with more energy pushing themselves onto already full particles, thus forcing the other electrons to push out at a greater velocity, OR it may be caused by the existing electrons gaining so much energy that they break the bond and move outward from the particle.
In either case, knowing the charge of the initial ion-cloud would help with the theories. Anyone know it?
They would need to test different thicknesses to test this, yes. I'll wait for them to do that before rethinking about this.
Oops, sorry about the bold bit, I used a b tag instead of a br tag. I was typing too quickly again ^_^
Remember, I'm only 16 so I don't have enough grounding in particle physics to make a more solid theory.
The particles are ionised because the laser (a highly coherent beam of focused photons) interacts with the electrons in the lead atoms. The photons literally knock the electrons in the atoms of the lead further back into the lead by giving them energy and raising the resistance back towards the laser.
A lot of energy is, at the same time, given to lots of particles of lead. The particles of lead given energy are those in the direct path of the laser and thus are those which have had their electrons removed by the laser, thus producing the ionised lead cloud.
With all this energy stored up in the electrons, which have no atoms to return to, it has to go somewhere! The electrons cannot enter the outer electron shells of the lead atoms, so they are bounced around the lead, attracted by the gravitational pull of the atoms but repelled by the electrons, while possibly forcing electrons with less energy than them out of the outer electron shells and replacing them.
When an electron is forced out of its shell (as in the first case 1millionth of a second after the laser discontinues) it emits the energy it had stored in the bond, like splitting the bonds in an actual atom, but with less intensity. When the electrons are forced out in the second case (50 millionths of a second after the first wave), energy is used in making the new bonds and the same ammount is used in breaking the old bonds, BUT the electrons making the new bond and breaking the old ones already have a lot of energy from the laser, which is released when the electrons enter the outer electron shells of the atoms, because the energy released from breaking the bonds cannot enter the energy-saturated electrons and the energy taken in from making the bond is already present in the electrons entering the shell.
You have to remember that AOL bought Netscape a while ago. They are probably just sticking with the market, as it shifts to Linux.
Ah, but the principle is the same. There would be a lot of free floating electrons between the strands, and also the electron flow is more coherent when flowing laterally along the tube compared to a solid mass of disorganised carbon molecules. No matter how much of a latice solid carbon may be, strands in a certain direction would allow for a much faster electron transmission. This could be used to make welectrical wiring more efficient but it would also make them more fragile.
Making the main deflector emit a tachyon pulse is only good for finding cloaked vessels nearby :)
Well, with the carbon artificially layered like this, in concentric circles with tiny spaces between the layers, the constructions resulting from this would be an artificial circular graphite-type material. The extra electron storage would result from the sea of free-floating electrons between each layer, as in graphite.
I belive it was seen during a war, but I never listened when i did History at school. What war was it, if there was a war at the time at all?
The one thing I have to say in the writer's defence is that opiates can be used to dull the pain caused by lactic acids resulting from anaerobic respiration, such as pushing yourself harder than your oxygen supply will allow, or doing the 100m (done anaerobically) without having to think about the pain which will come at the end. Admittedly, 100m runners don't actually think of the pain at all because of their mental training, but some events would be affected by any lack of pain.
Although even fast mutations only result in sub-species in the short term, what consitiutes a new species? A single mutation in a master control gene could completely change the look and working of that sub-species of the species. At what point of change does the new sub-species become a new species?
Example - If a crocodile's scales become scales of bone by changing the master control genes designating the genes responsible for the protien strands used in constructing it etc. (I'm not sure at all if this is possible... it's just an example I thought up off the top of my head). Although that would most likely be considered a new sub-species, What kind of mutations in the master control genes would merrit it being a new species?
True, the levels are low but at solar max you'd get more electromagnetic interference. Remember, you still have to send the images back to earth in some form of EM stream so I hope the ammount is neglegable (usually is) but if it turns out to be too high, the pictures may be distorted more than usual. Do you know how NASA seals with signal degredation? Perhaps they use a biyt parity system, which would take a long time but NASA have got the time to spare for such invaluable information.
"Human embryo cloning" is exactly what it says - the cloning of the human embryo. I do not believe they will be permitted to keep leving foetal clones. Though, the study of embryotic Stem cells is invaluable, in my opinion.
It would be very interesting to see how Jupiter's magnetic field varies during solar max. Though the probe would need a better form of protection against the more intense solar winds in order to take good pictures. We don't have magnetographs of earth during solar max yet, do we?
Well you have to remember that our magnetic poles also shift. Ours shifts partly because of the iron in the earth shifting.
I recall this "bubble" process being described as a process of collecting Zero Point energy (Background Quantum Interference) on a very small scale. Nice to see the research has branched into new theories.
They already have a small machine (not exactly portable yet, but they're working on it) capable of obtaining several types of medical information at once - much like the medical tricorder from Star Trek, and the hypospray has already been invented and was successfully tested in England on children who were receiving their "BCG". It forces the liquid through the pours in the skin, causing a slight inflamation in the skin for about 10 minutes, but leaving no scar and the injection itself having no pain.
With all of this, I can't help but think where this new technology will lead. I do hope that in my lifetime I witness the storing the patterns of whole objects digitally on a microchip which releases requenced electrons into a container containing some of one of the liquid-crystal forms with 5 carbons which temporarily hardens on being struck with electrons. Entire objects could be cretaed from an accelerated particle stream, including smaller components for electronic devices, remarkably improving the speed of miniaturisation and the quality of miniaturised products, aswell as boosting productivity because it would be a much faster production method.
This will certainly be a very welcome technology when developed further.