I like the Brazilian response where they fingerprinted and photographed all visiting US citizens. The Americans apparently didn't like that...should be good all of them visitng Europe are made to do the same. Maybe it will make them feel about as welcome as us Europeans will feel in the US if they implement it. Mind you it will probably solve their security problem - by the time they have finished nobody will want to go to the US!
Canadian broadcasting law includes Canadian content restrictions. Fully 35% of all music broadcast on Canadian radio must be CanCon, meaning at least two of the composer, performer, recording venue, and lyric writer must be Canadian. For television the fraction is 50%.
Thanks for that info - I've been wondering why I've started watching TV again since I've moved to Canada from the US.
Cyclones are in the pacific and Indian oceans. However perhaps "anti-hurricane" would be a better name since it has the opposite spin to a normal Hurricane.
aliens put a worm hole next to a black hole 2000 years ago. Because of the time dilation, if you enter the positive end of the worm hole, you actually go back in time.
...but emerge as purely random Hawking radiation which would pretty much put a stop to any conversation you might want to have.
Actually I would imagine that it won't apply Islamic since they (presumably?) ban all gambling. I thought that the WTO ruling was because the US is quite happy for US companies to export gambling to other countries just not the reverse i.e. you can restrict gambling if you want you just have to restrict it fairly for domestic and foreign companies alike.
1000 years from now, they prove that the theory of relativity is true and then travel back in time and tell Einstein who explains the principals to us and through the act of putting it in textbooks makes us 'take their word for it' since noone can understand it.
Actually if relativity is true and complete then they can't travel back in time to tell us. Of course if it's not a complete theor then time travel might be possible but then there would be no reason to come back and tell us.
Really? Britain actually _lost_ money on its new world colonies - why do you think that there was all this fuss about tax? They were wanting the money to cover the cost of the troops. In fact we are still losing money for the same reason today...it's just that now they keep dragging us into wars we've got no business fighting...
Who cares what the US DOJ thinks? It has no power in Europe. It's certainly entitled to its opinion (afterall we Europeans frequently comment on American "justice"). In fact I think its nice to have things this way around for a change!
Didn't Columbus face the same economic arguments for funding of his expedition?
My problem with Weinberg's arguments is that he is basing it on what we know. Sometimes I strongly believe that society has to take a risks and fund something for which we really don't know the outcome of. True, sending people to Mars probably will not have the same impact on scientific knowledge as finding the Higgs boson or Supersymmetry (if they exist!) but there is a slim chance that it might.
Suppose a manned expedition found evidence of life, even single celled life, now extinct life? I'm not sure that we can even calculate the chance of that (although it must be greater now that there is evidence of liquid water having been present). Personally, eventhough I am a physicist, I cannot think of a more important discovery than life on another planet.
Secondly, just like the moon program heightened interest in science, a Mars program would undoubtedly do the same. This benefits science by attracting the brightest students into the field rather than have them go into industry.
Finally, speaking as a European, sending people to Mars will proabably do a lot to capture the imagination of the world and restore of lot of the goodwill towards the US that GWB has completely destroyed. Afterall how many people remember the name of the first space probe vs. the name of the first man on the moon?
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I want the most megabytes for my buck. If a human can send back 100 megabytes of scientific data as opposed to 10 from a robot, send the human. if it's the other way around, send the robotic probe.
hungry and old programmer's website:
c0de:f77:4:f00d:000000000
hungry, old and carnivorous programmer's website:
c0de:f77:4:dead:beef:00000000
or US government agencies:
FB1:FB1:FB1:FB1:FB1:FB1:FB1:FB1
DEA:DEA:DEA:DEA:DEA:DEA:DEA:DEA
C1A:C1A:C1A:C1A:C1A:C1A:C1A:C1A
(or 0:1DEA:0:1DEA:0:1DEA:0:1DEA:0:1DEA:0)
Not always true. Researchers in, I believe, Australia have created closed systems where entropy reduces over time for small (but clearly measureable) amounts of time. In the long term the entropy increases but it does not get there by continuously increasing. Thus your "arrow of time" argument does not hold because time still "flowed" forward despite the entropy decreasing.
Actually it isn't in the EU where it is legally classified as a fruit because it is traditionally used as a content in jam in, I believe Portugal. Since the rule is that you can only put fruit into jam some bright spark on the committee decided it was easier to classify carrots as a fruit rather than to add an exception for carrots!
It's stuff like this that makes me think in the distant future Douglas Adams (author of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) will be regarded as a prophet rather than a very funny author...
Actually I found the same thing playing pong on a transatlantic United flight. Setting the number of balls to the max allowed and wiggling the bat up and down rapidly caused the computer to crash.
Interestingly enough after the third time the machine rebooted with all the games that you normally had to pay for enabled. Since the films they had were total dross this at least allowed me to pass most of the flight - until the thing crashed again and came back up with them disabled.
Fermilab has no secret research - it's all published in research journals and in fact the old datasets from some experiments are actually availabel on the web for anyone to test their theories against.
Unfortunately the US government seems to have troubling realizing that what is a good security policy for a top secret nuclear weapons lab is not really applicable to a bunch of international physicists (though thanks to their new visa requirements less international that it used to be) doing fundamental research.
This isn't helped by the fact that some of the people at Fermilab who were responsible for computer security were far more interested in implementing policies than actually securing computers.
Hmmmm....you might just want to think about what you just did. First you typed a message into a computer. Computers only exist because of the understanding of quantum physics that was discovered at the turn of the last century by the particle physicists of the day. True it was ~50 years before quantum theory was applied to silicon allowing the development of semi-conductors but without that initial blue-skies research you can kiss goodbye to every piece of electronic equipment that you own.
Second you posted the messge you just wrote onto a website that would not exist if it weren't for CERN developing a tool to help us particle physicists communicate.
So before you go making comments like that perhaps its worth remembering how you are even actually ABLE to make comments! Now I suppose the next thing would be to discuss how far you think all the research to cure diseases would get without any computers or modern electronics. However there are even more direct applications of fundamental physics to medicine: MRI, PET, X-rays etc not to mention accelerators being used to kill brain tumours.
As I hope that you can now see "blue sky", fundamental research does not always have immediate applicability but in the long run its the reason that we are able to keep making major breakthroughs in other fields.
This probably has nothing to do with string theory (or supersymmetry as one person suggested). Instead it has everything to do with something called Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).
QCD is the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, one of the four (that we know of) fundamental forces of nature. The problem is that the standard mathematical approach for dealing with fields (quantum field theory) uses something called perturbation theory. Unfortunately this breaks down for QCD because perturbation theory assumes that the field strength drops with decreasing energy whereas for QCD it actually increases! This means that the incredible complexity of all the low energy interactions is very important when making calculations of physics processes and this makes it impossible to do the calculations without making approximations.
So, while this result is interesting, and certainly needs to be explained by the theorists, the most likely outcome will be a correction to one of the approximations they made when doing their QCD calculations and is unlikely (though it's still possible) to be anything fundamental.
Evidence of Supersymmetry on the otherhand would be a truly major discovery with implications not only for particle physics but for cosmology as well: we still don't know what makes up 96% of the Universe and SUSY could explain some of that missing energy. It's also a requirement of Superstrings that SUSY exists, though perhaps not at the energies where we can access it in an accelerator.
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I like the Brazilian response where they fingerprinted and photographed all visiting US citizens. The Americans apparently didn't like that...should be good all of them visitng Europe are made to do the same. Maybe it will make them feel about as welcome as us Europeans will feel in the US if they implement it. Mind you it will probably solve their security problem - by the time they have finished nobody will want to go to the US!
The real problem is that they are also May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January, Februray and March fools as well.
Thanks for that info - I've been wondering why I've started watching TV again since I've moved to Canada from the US.
Cyclones are in the pacific and Indian oceans. However perhaps "anti-hurricane" would be a better name since it has the opposite spin to a normal Hurricane.
aliens put a worm hole next to a black hole 2000 years ago. Because of the time dilation, if you enter the positive end of the worm hole, you actually go back in time. ...but emerge as purely random Hawking radiation which would pretty much put a stop to any conversation you might want to have.
Actually I would imagine that it won't apply Islamic since they (presumably?) ban all gambling. I thought that the WTO ruling was because the US is quite happy for US companies to export gambling to other countries just not the reverse i.e. you can restrict gambling if you want you just have to restrict it fairly for domestic and foreign companies alike.
You mean like the Geneva convention which applies to prisoners of war like those in Guantanamo Bay? or does that not count because its a convention?
Hmmm....shame we can't do that one anymore.
Actually if relativity is true and complete then they can't travel back in time to tell us. Of course if it's not a complete theor then time travel might be possible but then there would be no reason to come back and tell us.
What ever happened to the concept that the simplest explaination is probably the best?
Err....sorry but this is the simplest explanation for the Universe so far that might work.
Really? Britain actually _lost_ money on its new world colonies - why do you think that there was all this fuss about tax? They were wanting the money to cover the cost of the troops. In fact we are still losing money for the same reason today...it's just that now they keep dragging us into wars we've got no business fighting...
Who cares what the US DOJ thinks? It has no power in Europe. It's certainly entitled to its opinion (afterall we Europeans frequently comment on American "justice"). In fact I think its nice to have things this way around for a change!
My problem with Weinberg's arguments is that he is basing it on what we know. Sometimes I strongly believe that society has to take a risks and fund something for which we really don't know the outcome of. True, sending people to Mars probably will not have the same impact on scientific knowledge as finding the Higgs boson or Supersymmetry (if they exist!) but there is a slim chance that it might.
Suppose a manned expedition found evidence of life, even single celled life, now extinct life? I'm not sure that we can even calculate the chance of that (although it must be greater now that there is evidence of liquid water having been present). Personally, eventhough I am a physicist, I cannot think of a more important discovery than life on another planet.
Secondly, just like the moon program heightened interest in science, a Mars program would undoubtedly do the same. This benefits science by attracting the brightest students into the field rather than have them go into industry.
Finally, speaking as a European, sending people to Mars will proabably do a lot to capture the imagination of the world and restore of lot of the goodwill towards the US that GWB has completely destroyed. Afterall how many people remember the name of the first space probe vs. the name of the first man on the moon?
In science it's quality not quantity that counts.
Yes, it's not as good as real life but let's just hope your fiance doesn't read your post...
No - with IPV6 you won't need DNS....
For example a butcher could have the IP address:
dea1:dead:beef:2a11:4:f00d:000
sites of ill repute:
bad:bad:babe:4a11:2c:00000000
hungry programmer's website:
c0de:c:4:f00d:0000000000000000
hungry and old programmer's website:
c0de:f77:4:f00d:000000000
hungry, old and carnivorous programmer's website:
c0de:f77:4:dead:beef:00000000
or US government agencies:
FB1:FB1:FB1:FB1:FB1:FB1:FB1:FB1
DEA:DEA:DEA:DEA:DEA:DEA:DEA:DEA
C1A:C1A:C1A:C1A:C1A:C1A:C1A:C1A
(or 0:1DEA:0:1DEA:0:1DEA:0:1DEA:0:1DEA:0)
better start reserving those IPV6 addresses now!
Wrong - it is not a "religion" as you put it it is just a hypothesis at stages 2-3 on your chart.
Not always true. Researchers in, I believe, Australia have created closed systems where entropy reduces over time for small (but clearly measureable) amounts of time. In the long term the entropy increases but it does not get there by continuously increasing. Thus your "arrow of time" argument does not hold because time still "flowed" forward despite the entropy decreasing.
Actually it isn't in the EU where it is legally classified as a fruit because it is traditionally used as a content in jam in, I believe Portugal. Since the rule is that you can only put fruit into jam some bright spark on the committee decided it was easier to classify carrots as a fruit rather than to add an exception for carrots!
It's stuff like this that makes me think in the distant future Douglas Adams (author of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) will be regarded as a prophet rather than a very funny author...
Actually I found the same thing playing pong on a transatlantic United flight. Setting the number of balls to the max allowed and wiggling the bat up and down rapidly caused the computer to crash.
Interestingly enough after the third time the machine rebooted with all the games that you normally had to pay for enabled. Since the films they had were total dross this at least allowed me to pass most of the flight - until the thing crashed again and came back up with them disabled.
Now I know where the colours on the new American $20 note come from - they have obviously switched to using HP printers at the US mint.
Fermilab has no secret research - it's all published in research journals and in fact the old datasets from some experiments are actually availabel on the web for anyone to test their theories against.
Unfortunately the US government seems to have troubling realizing that what is a good security policy for a top secret nuclear weapons lab is not really applicable to a bunch of international physicists (though thanks to their new visa requirements less international that it used to be) doing fundamental research.
This isn't helped by the fact that some of the people at Fermilab who were responsible for computer security were far more interested in implementing policies than actually securing computers.
Second you posted the messge you just wrote onto a website that would not exist if it weren't for CERN developing a tool to help us particle physicists communicate.
So before you go making comments like that perhaps its worth remembering how you are even actually ABLE to make comments! Now I suppose the next thing would be to discuss how far you think all the research to cure diseases would get without any computers or modern electronics. However there are even more direct applications of fundamental physics to medicine: MRI, PET, X-rays etc not to mention accelerators being used to kill brain tumours.
As I hope that you can now see "blue sky", fundamental research does not always have immediate applicability but in the long run its the reason that we are able to keep making major breakthroughs in other fields.
I wish I'd discovered it: then it would be called the moore-on :-)
QCD is the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, one of the four (that we know of) fundamental forces of nature. The problem is that the standard mathematical approach for dealing with fields (quantum field theory) uses something called perturbation theory. Unfortunately this breaks down for QCD because perturbation theory assumes that the field strength drops with decreasing energy whereas for QCD it actually increases! This means that the incredible complexity of all the low energy interactions is very important when making calculations of physics processes and this makes it impossible to do the calculations without making approximations.
So, while this result is interesting, and certainly needs to be explained by the theorists, the most likely outcome will be a correction to one of the approximations they made when doing their QCD calculations and is unlikely (though it's still possible) to be anything fundamental.
Evidence of Supersymmetry on the otherhand would be a truly major discovery with implications not only for particle physics but for cosmology as well: we still don't know what makes up 96% of the Universe and SUSY could explain some of that missing energy. It's also a requirement of Superstrings that SUSY exists, though perhaps not at the energies where we can access it in an accelerator.